Re: Does anyone know anything about Wheat Computers

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Rebecca Ore <rebecca.ore@op.net>:
> You think I could talk them into /bribing me to recommend/ donating a
> box to me as a s.f. novelist whose next book will be about open source,
> cancelling, and ideas as property?

You could try.  But I don't think it's very likely.
 
> VA research web design is unreadable without putting Netscape up full
> screen, by the way.  Um, just checked -- not even then.  How is it under
> Lynx?

I don't know.  I just tried them in a 640x480 Netscape window with 123-point
type.  It looks OK to me.

> > (Someone else mentioned Penguin Computing; it was was founded by a
> > former VAR employee, my friend Sam Ockman).
> 
> Um, so why do they pay people to recommend them?

Too many pronouns.  Who's paying who?
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