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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!news.pacbell.net!usenet From: szdavila@jps.net (Ed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 02:07:52 GMT Organization: A customer of Pacific Bell Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32d6f490.1747664@news.jps.net> References: <32B6AFB0.787F@pc.jaring.my> <5974tk$k01@fridge-nf0.shore.net> <m2ybew3puy.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.961219163846.9274A-100000@nanaimo.island.net> <59n13i$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.LNX.3.95.961227175553.4569A-100000@nanaimo.island.net> <5agb60$6fa@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970109232616.18188D-100000@nanaimo.island.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sac-port41.jps.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33971 On Thu, 9 Jan 1997 23:33:18 -0800, Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> wrote: >> Ha! This proves you don't know the General Secretary... He would >> never have admitted that! >> >> ``The General Secretary was angry. "In order to >> maintain our continous leadership in the world's >> software technology, we need to continually improve >> our products. I have received reports that Linus is >> now slowly catching up!" His fist banged against >> the table.'' > >J"org, > >How similar your General Secretary sounds to a manager >at a medium to large sized American company. There is a >principle of bureaucracy and mediocrity which transcends >economic systems and the past cold war. > Or placed in another context: it's the open competition that really makes the world go 'round. This is not a description of mediocrity - rather this is a pragmatic viewpoint, and one which keeps advancement going in a forward direction.