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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!gw1.att.com!nntphub.cb.att.com!not-for-mail From: dyson@inuxs.inh.att.com (John S. Dyson) 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: 15 Apr 1996 15:28:25 GMT Organization: AT&T Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4ktpup$361@nntpb.cb.att.com> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: inuxs.inh.att.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21379 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:593 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3199 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3009 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17338 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45452 In article <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com>, Russell Nelson <nelson@ns.crynwr.com> wrote: > >See? Again and again you address technical issues. Technical issues, >in general, don't matter. > They do if a system is dog slow, or really inept. > >But you didn't answer my question: what is wrong with Linux that you >cannot fix? > GPL, in many cases. Some would argue the free BSD copyrights are, that is where alot of the division comes in. I would have been tempted to work on Linux, except for the GPL issue... John dyson@freebsd.org