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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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: Fri, 03 May 1996 21:19:50 -0700
Organization: Me
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Breakdown wrote:
[ ... entropic death of Microsoft predicted ... ]
[ ... my points, any one of which being true counters the above ... ]
[ ... partial subjective countering of my points ... ]
[ ... entropic death of Microsoft repredicted ... ]
Companies operate in feedback systems, similarly to biological
entities. You are arguing for multiple simultaneous catastrophic
failure of all (multiply redundant) feedback links.
I find it to be unlikely to occur, and I find reliance on it
occuring to be unwise (just as reliance on any unlikely event
is unwise).
] : Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
] : or previous employers.
]
] As if we couildn't tell this, so you needed to include it
] in your sig.. this is the only reason why I don't put a
] signature, cuz whatever you put is so god damn relative and
] stupid, people just laugh at it...
It is not there for you. It is not there for me. It is there
for my employer, who doesn't happen to be as liberal in their
interpretations as you happen to be.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.