On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 03:48:46PM +0300, John Rabkin wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 03:00:54PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
[ much snipped, including signature ] > > All your points are very true. I tend to add my personal fears to the > equation. Thus my arguments. > > I'm afraid that by judging and comparing ourselves primarily to the > commercial market leaders we will lose the naivete that created Linux > in the first place. I'm afraid that in emulating and competing with > the commercial companies we will effectively be led by them in a blind > bid to get the newest glitz or GUI fad implemented. What about commercial companies that finance current linux development? > > Nothing can be farther removed from the spirit that created the kernel > in the first place. As I understand it. What spirit? Emulating commercial UNIX-es? implementing posix? > > Thankfully GNU/Linux open nature allows me to remain as outdated as I > wish. Just keep those security fixes somehow... -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
