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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?!
Date: 28 Feb 1995 20:19:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3ivt1u$ip@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>Sheesh.  Then go do it and stop talking about it.  You have different
>goals than I.  I want a platform that I can depend on being there for a
>while, not one that will get locked up and bloat and die as soon as it
>gets to a useful state.  You want a toy, I want a dependable operating
>system.

Sheesh yourself.  As usual, you pick up on the one element of my posting
that you can get religious about and ignore the rest.  I'm sorry, Larry,
but I'm giving up on debating with you.  You have no balanced perspective
and are little more that an one-dimensional religious zealot with a
single cause to preach.  I had hoped it might be otherwise since I value
the contributions you've made to the free software world (CVS, etc) and
thought we might have a CONSTRUCTIVE debate.  Instead, I get this bird
on the other end squawking "GPL!  GPL!" in response to anything I say.

How disappointing.  I don't even get it this badly from RMS!

					Jordan