Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows - good
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
> This has been argues 100,000 times in the past 10 years. One
> word: volunteers. Two words: Open Source.
and will continue to be "discussed"
> There are multiple projects for a bunch of reasons:
>
> "I can do a better job."
>
> "Having multiple competing projects is a *good* thing. Compe-
> tition drives progress."
"good" competition is good ...
> "Your project is full of jackasses."
cracking up ... and i'd prefix it with "clueless"
( clueless programmers :-) or marketing/test/qa/etc..etc..
> "Project X doesn't do what *I* need done, and they won't accept
> my patches, for whatever good/bad/unknown reason, so I start my
> own project Y, either from scratch or by forking X."
>
> "We think that Project X is fundamentally flawed. The current
> maintainer thinks it's great."
>
> "Project X's copyright owner just decided to relicense it in a
> non-free or non-DFSG manner, so we *must* either fork or begin
> from scratch."
i'm waiting for the next generation (non-linux) kernel to come out
that will fix the "linux kernel problems" which is growing into
giant monster, and it's approaching its "getting too old age"
at this point ( 13+ years ) .. most other kernels/os has long
since died off before it got to be 14yrs old
c ya
alvin
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