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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4t0v8l$7bn@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4rtvpf$7e5@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E73BCA.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <4s7jsd$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E7B8A5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8rtp$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E9B45E.48BF@cet.co.jp> <4seet9$f0l@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31EDAC52.7E9@cet.co.jp> <4t00n7$bot@news.siemens.at> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:117824 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:24238 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. ;-)