Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?
Jamie Zawinski Quotes
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
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| Birth: | 3rd November, 1968 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Computer Programmer |
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James Werner "Jamie" Zawinski, commonly known as jwz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an American computer programmer with contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser. He maintains the XScreenSaver project which provides screenblanking for Mac OS X and for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems using the X Window System.
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