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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!lepidopteran.cse.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!scramble.lm.com!godot.cc.duq.edu!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!library.erc.clarkson.edu!shapircs From: shapircs@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Carl S. Shapiro) 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) Followup-To: 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 Date: 14 Apr 1996 21:45:55 GMT Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4krrmj$dsu@library.erc.clarkson.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <NELSON.96Apr12112334@ns.crynwr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d106-15.dw.clarkson.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21487 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:615 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3231 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3051 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17448 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45735 Russell Nelson (nelson@ns.crynwr.com) wrote: (stuff cut out) : That's because they weren't working cooperatively. What, pray tell, : Jordan, prevents you from improving the flaws that you see in Linux, : to the point where it is as good as FreeBSD or NetBSD or OpenBSD or : 386BSD? GPL? Why should I have to give all of my work away for free? (speaking for myself only)