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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!cornellcs!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!ub!ns1.potsdam.edu!news From: nelson@ns.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 15 Apr 1996 21:38:39 GMT Organization: Crynwr Software Lines: 36 Message-ID: <NELSON.96Apr15173839@ns.crynwr.com> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <yfgbuktfn1w.fsf@time.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.crynwr.com In-reply-to: jkh@time.cdrom.com's message of 15 Apr 1996 09:51:23 -0700 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21415 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:602 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3214 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3027 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17386 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45577 In article <yfgbuktfn1w.fsf@time.cdrom.com> jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > You think we'd have the same motivation to move as far and as fast > without such a healthy degree of competition? Depends on who you think you're competing with. You're competing with Linux. I'm competing with Windows. > But you didn't answer my question: what is wrong with Linux that you > cannot fix? > > Because you didn't ask the right question. The right question is: > > "What is wrong with Linux that I and a goodly number of the people I > work with WANT to fix?" > > And the answer is, of course, nothing. I like Linux just the way it > is, and I hope that the people working on it continue to make > progress. For my own tastes, it's not a solution I care to embrace > because my tastes are simply different. I prefer a different type of > organization, a different copyright, a different group of people to > work with. Right, and I think you're wasting your time. But that's because you've given up the good fight. *BSD will never amount to a hill of beans with an attitude like that. "We can't win; let's not try." is the attitiude of a luser. I wouldn't hire you to sweep my floor, Jordan. Well, maybe *just* to sweep my floor. But I'd be sure to inspect your work afterwards. -- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | PGP ok 11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | If you would seek peace, Potsdam, NY 13676 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | first seek freedom