Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 28 February 2013 23:20:08 Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > Your experience doesn't make your point of reference of any greater value
> > than anyone else's.  Many people go back a long way.  You were obviously
> > in the miltary and/or in the States, since the first commercial computer
> > this side of the pond was in 1963.  But many much younger people have
> > more useful experience.
>
> Can't speak to heavy handed or not, but let me suggest several points of
> relevance:
>
> - those of us who go back a bit date from a time when computer science
> was an offshoot of electrical engineering -

But no-one else boasts _every_ _time_  of being venerable.  

Secondly, I know of at least two people of equal or greater antiquity who came 
to computers through the arts or Maths.

Thirdly, I didn't notice yesterday, but he is not even telling the truth.  He 
cannot both be around 70 (he usually says he is approaching 70) and have 
worked on/with punched cards in 1949.  (Do the arithmetic.)

And I stand by what I said.  Many much younger people (not all, many) have 
experience that is more relevant and more useful.

Lisi