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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.artisoft.com!usenet 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: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:14:17 -0700 Organization: Me Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3173FF99.46221A66@lambert.org> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <4krsc4$m7t@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <317339E6.581CCB0B@lambert.org> <4l0gi7$kv7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.1.76 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21479 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:613 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3229 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3049 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17446 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45727 Kevin P. Neal wrote: ] Funny, last time I went to www.microsoft.com, it was slow as a dog. ] ] I was amused. Do not intentionally confuse bad implementation with bad design, or bad design with bad ideas. If you do this, you will commit a disservice to yourself. A good idea or design is good, regardless of whether or not you like the politics of its origin. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.