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From: Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:21:03 +0100
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David Lesher <wb8foz@netcom.com> wrote:
>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......

You left the last bit out:

        "....Incredible Marketing, bestseller, made billions, 
         took over the world."
        
-- 
Ray Auchterlounie                Research Student (still) at:
<rda@kythera.demon.co.uk>            Signal Processing Group
<rda@eng.cam.ac.uk>                  Cambridge University Engineering Dept.
                "Don't ask me about my thesis (TM)"