Re: Semi-OT: The Unix-Hater's Handbook

[Peter Hessler <phessler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 06 May 2005 16:45:49 -0700
walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: This is not a new book, in fact it is now out of print -- which is
: why the authors have the right to distribute it online for free:
: 
: http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html
: 
: I'm only on page 22 of 360 and I've already laughed out loud more
: than once.  (This is not M$ propaganda, although I can see why they
: might not object to distributing it.)  There is nothing funnier than
: the truth -- and I can testify that at least the first 22 pages are
: both true and funny.

Not only is it not Microsoft propaganda, but Dennis Ritchie wrote the
anti-forward.