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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!siemens.at!siemens.at!not-for-mail From: mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.co.at (Ingo Molnar) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 5 Aug 1996 10:41:10 GMT Organization: Siemens AG Austria Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4u4j46$gun@news.siemens.at> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4sesh4$2ls@dworkin.wustl.edu> <31EE28D3.41C67EA6@star-gate.com> <4t689c$4uq@hplms2.hpl.hp.com> <4tsgi7$65v@cantina.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc5829.hil.siemens-austria X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:47391 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:24970 Mika Ruohotie (mickey@cantina.clinet.fi) wrote: : seriously... it seems to me, listening how linux people talk, that there : are things depending in a way or another on linus... in today's world : the tomorrow is never guaranteed, so you never know if linux is much around : in say 15 years from his death... As long as the hardware it runs on, is usable, Linux wont be dead. Even if everybody stopped developing now (why should they), it would be usable for a few years. With full sources, if you really depend on Linux, you can fix the bugs. If you depend on a commercial application, you >need< further development, since you dont control the source code. [ Well, very big companies have contracts which guarantee maintainance and source code control even if the other party goes bankrupt, but these things are out of question for smaller companies or individuals. ] To sum it up: 'anything that works and for which you have the full source code, can't be dead'. -- mingo