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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:43:02 -0700
Organization: Me
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Warwick Allison wrote:
] Don't worry about it. The people who huff and puff about
] `winning the desktop', and similar Windoze-chasing are the
] types that don't do anything about it anyway. That's the
] beauty of what is happenning with free Unix - there is no
] danger that some well-written Grand Plan comes along and
] stuffs the whole thing up. If we the users/developers like
] soemthing, we will use it and improve it in the directions
] we want it to go.
I don't know where this idea that "good OS" and "desktop OS"
are mutually exclusive comes from... the idea is idiotic.
Certainly, the Linux camp in this thread *must* admit that
Caldera is founded on the principle that there is no implied
mutual exlcusion.
Anyone who implies mutual exclusion doesn't know what they
are talking about (I prefer to accuse people of ignorance
instead of incompetence or malice).
For 30 Million dollars, the current owner of UNIX could easily
win the desktop. Novell could have done it for 20 Million
when they owned it. Hell, BSDI could do it for 25 Million.
Linux could probably own it for 15 Million because of the
fanatical free labor.
Has no one other than Bill Gates and the Japanese Auto and
Electronics indistries read Demming? The second company to
enter any market has a *serious* advantage, if they aren't
idiots. It's almost as if he is whispering "here is the
formula for making money".
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.