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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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!mail2news.alias.net!myriad!mylinuxbox!suck!netcom.com!wb8foz From: wb8foz@netcom.com (David Lesher) Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Message-ID: <wb8fozDq6t2s.9tv@netcom.com> Reply-To: wb8foz@netcom.com (David Lesher) Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <317339E6.581CCB0B@lambert.org> <4l0gi7$kv7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <3173FF99.46221A66@lambert.org> <4l2ofe$jjo@kruuna.helsinki.fi> Distribution: na Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 00:52:04 GMT Lines: 20 Sender: wb8foz@netcom13.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21763 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:687 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3320 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3156 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17664 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46239 torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds) writes: >A good idea or design is _not_ good, unless there is a good >implementation of it. I recall a friend of mine saying something along those lines: It was a GREAT product. Only three things wrong with it: Bad design Bad parts Bad manufacturing Other than THAT, it was perfect...... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close...........(v)301 56 LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead........vr vr vr vr.................20915-1433