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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:34821 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1724 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!news.ucs.mun.ca!nano.engr.mun.ca!matthew From: matthew@nano.engr.mun.ca (Matthew Newhook) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <matthew.735171544@femto.engr.mun.ca> Sender: usenet@news.ucs.mun.ca (NNTP server account) Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland References: <1993Apr17.190517.4276@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.205715.11278@coe.montana.edu> <1993Apr17.231000.103368@zeus.calpoly.edu> <9304181046.aa28257@gate.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 22:19:04 GMT Lines: 25 damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) writes: >People who write public software only do it for one thing: to see their >name in lights. That might seem frivolous, but I believe it's true. So >if that is their only motivation, then don't allow the sharks to take >that away from them. After all, no motivation, no software. What a pile of shit. Quite often people write software, look at it, say jee, this is useful! I bet some other people will like to use this. let's let them see it, and use it if they want to. They didn't sit down and say, mm... I wonder what I can write to have my name in lights... After all, do you know the name of the person who wrote `less'? >Just a few ramblings >Damian >-- >+----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ >| Damian Ivereigh | If you can't suss out what this is replying to | >| damian@centrix.demon.co.uk | get a threaded news reader, like trn. :-) | >| Twickenham, U.K. | This is the best way to cut wasted traffic | >+----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ -- Matthew Newhook (matthew@engr.mun.ca) | "...get on with the fascination Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science | the real relation, the underlying Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada | theme" - Limelight, Rush