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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!tecsun1.tec.army.mil!news.larc.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!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) Date: 16 Apr 1996 23:49:49 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4l1bmt$12qu@news.missouri.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <NELSON.96Apr12112334@ns.crynwr.com> <4krrmj$dsu@library.erc.clarkson.edu> 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:21723 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:679 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3310 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3144 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17634 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46178 Carl S. Shapiro (shapircs@craft.camp.clarkson.edu) wrote: : 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) Because it's the only way to really improve desktop computing. It's going to hell the way things are, so change them. -------- 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