[Info-vax] Real Usenet clients, was: Re: backups and compaction or nocompaction might be better

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-D17827.12073802022013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> Amongst other things I am using FreeBSD here.

Maybe better than Microsoft, Apple or Gnu/Linux, but it's still unix and 
I just don't like unix.  Where are the cluster-wide group logical names? 
(Yes, maybe the same functionality can be achieved somewhere.  That's 
not the point, though, since every Turing machine can emulate all the 
others; it's the ease of use which counts.)

> > Apple?  I actually like the concept---similar to DEC,
> > actually, with hardware, software and applications all from one
> > place---but if I go that route I would like to go all the way.  However, 
> > Apple have apparently been taken under the control of the Daughters of 
> > the American Revolution, not only not allowing some apps which are 
> > capable of displaying nudity or whatever, but bowldlerizing books and 
> > music.  No, not my cup of tea.  What is left?
> 
> You don't need to buy any of that content from Apple.  I have been using 
> OS X for over a decade and have never bought e-books or music from Apple.

True.  However, if I make such a big jump, I would like to feel good 
about the company.