On 09.08.2001 13:50 thad lozada wrote:
> Ya! But isn't it that the beat(e.g. kerouac, burroughs, dylan thomas
> etc.) inspired flower people gave the world the likes of Thompson &
> Richie ( craetor of Unix) and later Kerniggan teaming up with with
> Ritchie wrote C. You may also include Bill Gates, Ellison and java
> creator Gosling to this flower people who changed the world. Eventually
> AT&T gave a copy of its kernel to UC Berkeley that later on came out with
> the freeBSD. Wellwho knows what keeping us all busy is just a product of
> psychedellic trips of these great guys, Kernigan, Ritchie & Thompson.
> Later, they inspired Linus Torvalds to write something that duplicate
> UNIX eventually the Linux we are using.
Pre, mukhang hebigats ang hinihithit mo dyan... pa-tagay naman, hehehe...
>
> For Gates, well ppl love to throw pies on his face and for Ellison he may
> end crashing with his MIG. They are the cause of our bad trips!
> --
Hmm, it seems the College Dropouts (Gates, Ellison, et al) make all the
money, but those with postgraduate degrees (Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie,
Torvalds) end up creating something useful for the whole world (UNIX, C,
Linux) and give it away for free. Is there a trend here?
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