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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!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!world!mv!news.missouri.edu!vortex.cc.missouri.edu!rhys From: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) 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: 17 Apr 1996 00:17:57 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4l1dbl$12qu@news.missouri.edu> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <4ktpup$361@nntpb.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vortex.cc.missouri.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21652 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:656 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3281 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3114 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17579 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46070 John S. Dyson (dyson@inuxs.inh.att.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. Windows is dog slow. Linux is not. Linux (unix) is far from 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... Please explain a little more. What's wrong with the GPL? -------- If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. Got a Linux problem? Or can you help others solve them? Visit the Linux Common Problems page at http://vortex.cc.missouri.edu/~rhys/linux.html rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu