[Gllug] Grauniad Technology

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:48 PM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/19/linux-open-source
>
> "There is a peculiar satisfaction to be had from fitting together all
> the different bits of a Unix command until it does exactly what you
> want, but of course it has nothing to do with real productivity,"
>
>
> FFS. Tell that to all the thousands of scientists and engineers around
> the world who use Linux to store and analyse brain scans, render the
> latest movie blockbusters, design novel new drugs, analyse genetic
> sequences, simulate chemical reactions, design jet engines and F1
> cars.
> --

He is talking about his first foraging into Linux around a decade ago,
where one had to dabble often in the CL to get things done. It wasn't
productive work in the sense of getting things done, nevertheless was
interesting and fun.

He is not implying that Linux is not useful, just that it was too
complicated on its infancy (which is kind of stating the obvious).
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