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From: kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal)
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)
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Date: 17 Apr 1996 13:28:23 GMT
Organization: The House of RetroComputing
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Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi) wrote:
: In article <3173FF99.46221A66@lambert.org>,
: Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
: >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.
: 
: Do not intentionally confuse politics or origin with a bad
: implementation.
: 
: A good idea or design is _not_ good, unless there is a good
: implementation of it.  It is *never* a excuse to say that the "basic
: design" is good, if the product is bad. A bad product is a bad product,
: regardless of politics, origin _or_ design.
: 
: If the basic design is good, then the product may be more easily
: improved in the future, but before those improvements are done you're
: just handwaving.
: 
: Fight vapourware!
: 
: 		Linus

Geeze, I was just ragging on MicroSloth for having a slow server, and
implying that perhaps they run it with their own OS.

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