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From: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?!
Date: 28 Feb 1995 19:20:30 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: 1. The primary motivator behind the FreeBSD effort (and I suspect the NetBSD
:    effort, though I'll let them speak for themselves) is not a moral duty
:    to Do The Right Thing, as you would have us do.  It's to have fun.

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.

So if you want to go play, then go play.  I want to convince people that
they have a vested interest in making sure that their computing platform
isn't constantly being changed at the whim of some MBA.
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Larry McVoy			(415) 390-1804			 lm@sgi.com