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02/07/2000


"Top Ten Reasons Europe Is The Real World UNIX:"

10. Claim to be more literate and intellectual than the brute
savages above.

9. Not one single entity, but a mixture of different systems.
Each system claims to be the perfect one, and to represent all.
Gets insulted when you confuse them.

8. A great past, then almost destroyed each other in internal wars.
Recently  re-united with common interests, and reclaimed lost ground.

7. Inter-operability based on formalized standards.

6. No huge Hollywood titles - small is beautiful.

5. Believe you can express yourself better in writing.

4. Not all titles are available for smaller languages/systems.
Sometimes you still have to use English/Windows, to
great dismay.

3. Research is more conceptual and academic, less business-driven.
Home of the greatest inventors and philosophers.

2. Everything is so frigging expensive. Unless it's free.

1. Snotty, stuffy, cocky, elitist....





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