[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <lu1f9l$5ii$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> writes: 

> > The VMS way is much better.  When VMS lost ground due to bad marketing
> > etc, many things were developed on unix with an "I don't care about
> > other operating systems" attitude.  Some of these became de-facto
> > standards (gzip etc) so VMS people had to adapt if they wanted to use
> > them.
> 
> Whoa! Don't throw stones in glass houses...
> How many VMS programs can you say were developed with a mind of making 
> it easy to compile and run them under other operating systems?

One of the most popular open-source packages, LaTeX.  :-)