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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 22 Jul 1996 22:27:33 GMT
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mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.co.at (Ingo Molnar) wrote:

>  You cant really compare commercial software with the free one. The
> 'fun effect' compromises everything. People code stuff worth 100
> manyears in months, just for fun. And they cant do things doable in
> 1 manmonth, just because it's boring.

Don't tell this to the FreeBSD developers, or they might immediately
stop preparing new releases. :-)

Be assured, release work is about the hardest and non-funniest work to
be done, even with free software.  (That's part of the story why there
are not more FreeBSD releases per year.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)