Hi,
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Minix is long dead. Nobody uses it.It was a college experiment.
>
> Do some hacking elsewhere.
>
> Don't waste time beating dead horse and find out uncompetitive areas like some
> companies do.
>
Can you explain why it is a waste of time ? Do you think there is
nothing that could be learnt from it ? In what detail have you looked
at the Minix source code to conclude that it is a waste of time to
contribute to that ?
There are still people who contribute to proejcts from 70's and 80's,
just for fun. Likewise, this is done for fun as well. If you don't
like Minix, leave it at that. Please do not discourage good work done
by someone.
> They want to focus on African markets, South America and colleges. I now know
> why. They are afraid of competing with the best talent.
>
Minix was a pet project of AST, intended at helping college
students. It doesn't matter whether its focus is on African markets or
Asian markets. There are a lot of things that college students can
gain from Minix.
--
Thank you
Balachandran Sivakumar
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- Swami Vivekananda
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