[COFF] Alpine, was: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Adam Thornton wrote in
 <CAP2nic2GZg6S+WVzVGx89Hn5qzkyFBuYGbieA_A20Tv9H06knQ at mail.gmail.com>:
 |On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:59 AM Michael Kjörling <michael at kjorling.se>
 |wrote:
 |> On 12 Jul 2022 09:01 +1000, from dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
 |>>> Alpine is very popular. It's using OpenRC and eyeing S6, I've heard.
 |>>
 |>> Alpine?  Where do Penguin/OS users get off using the name of a
 |> well-known
 |>> MUA (the one I'm using now)?
 |> If Wikipedia is to be believed, the MUA came later.
 |> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux> "Initial release August \
 |> 2005"
 |> as compared to
 |> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)> "Initial release
 |> December 20, 2007"
 |
 |Yeah well where do those file compression Johnny-come-latelies get off on
 |stealing the name of an Infocom-format Z-machine interpreter?

I "always" thought of it as a "You can call me Al" extension, or
better continuation, of the Pine mailer with the Pico editor (that
i liked), which are much, much older.
(TonyPine would have been an alternative: "Fix it again Tony".)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)