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From: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 386BSD Release: Contributors Only Please...
Date: 28 May 1993 21:47:19 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In-reply-to: mark@roissy.umd.edu's message of 24 May 1993 16:38:09 GMT
In article <1tqtlh$ifs@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
you use 386bsd or would you buy a commercial product with guarenteed
I would select free OS in any circumstances, because I would not be relying
on one company in my support.
You have to make a choice. Of these various systems, which one best
The primary reason to me to use free software is because it is more
efficient, it avoids duplicating work and allows getting out of the maze of
twisty little operating systems, all almost alike. I was shocked when I
saw first messages about the split. First impression was very bad, and it
has not changed after following this discussion for some time.
"everything is fine, they can take our changes to their operating systems
if they wish" sounds extremely selfish to me. Free software lives on
*contribution*, sending diffs to guys coordinating these things. If
someone feels that the coordination doesn't work, he should fix the
coordination, not make his own version of X to mess up the coordination
even more. One, usually very well working fix is to leave the job to
someone who can coordinate with others.
I just hope HURD gets a lift-off. FSF at least operates in a professional
manner and has got one clear goal instead of half a dozen different ones
for people with slightly different kinds of goals (or, types of ego).
-
Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND,
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