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From: hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning
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Date: 15 Sep 1993 15:52:38 GMT
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NOTE: This is a repost of message <276kq0$2u9@fw.novatel.ca> (T.P.)
James Tsillas (jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu) wrote:
: Having two very similar (if not three) operating systems seems to me
: like a incredible waste of personal resource and will give rise to much
: duplicate (triplicate?) work for what appear to be simply religious
: reasons.
: There are no good reasons that I can see for keeping the efforts
: separate. The arguments that we need an experimental release of the OS
I don't understand what all the whining is about... I see nothing wrong
with a little bit of parallelism... After all; where would the world be
if Macdonald's had had no competition. Would we have one Hamburger to
choose from? Would there be One car? (as was brought up earlier). How
'bout the "Yellow God" (Kodak). There's all kinds of examples. In fact;
our society (well; at least the one I'm a member of) is one big huge
example of competition at work. Without competition; it becomes difficult
to find a stimulus for improving something which is already sufficiently
functional. Agreeably; competition can be taken too far and have dire
consequences (See: Microsoft/Xerox/Apple) but I think in our case(s);
I don't think anyone has anything to fear... Last I recall; there weren't
any rabid-kill-programmers in either camp holding loaded semi-automatic
weapons ready to shoot at sight any member of the other camp (Though
cgd *does* live in California and drives a truck so one never knows....).
In any case; I think we're all safe. I think we're all having fun;
and whoever isn't can (as stated by jordan) "Vote with their feet".
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