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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:10:33 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 19 Message-ID: <31EBB0E9.2781E494@dyson.iquest.net> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <31E3D9E2.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s5bl2$qpg@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> <31E664EB.167EB0E7@inuxs.att.com> <4sf1gg$ebs@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45447 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4079 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23758 Michael Griffith wrote: > > To my way of thinking, the competition between free operating systems > can be quite useful. After all, none of the commercial UN*X vendors are > much fun to challenge anymore. I'm just sad to see the competition take > such an ugly turn. I'm sure that none of you would say in person what > you have written in Usenet. > I agree that competition now exists mostly in the Free OS world. I think that people should be more careful what that say, and my comments were a response to a very personal attack on me. It had been suggested that I wait awhile before responding when an unwarranted attack had been made, but it is my position that the unwarranted attacker be also so admonished. John