11,000 MS to Linux's 1 million plus. Who has the edge?
MS wouldn't want to create it's own linux version because they would
have to make it free for people to DL and mess with the source code.
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God, Root, what is difference?
-- Pitr, UserFriendly
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From: Bob Munck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, November 14, 1998 6:04 PM
Subject: RE: WC:>: Open Source Philosophy Model?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
>> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 1998 5:26 AM
>
>
>> - Linux is already vastly superior to Windows NT. Microsoft
>> has no hope of catching up because
>
>>(a) they don't have the resources
>
>Pardon me? MS has some 11,000 people in R&D, annual profits of
>$4,500,000,000. How big is Linux, maybe 5,000 function points?
>MS could start from scratch and build a completely new OS of the
>same level of functionality in six months with a tenth of those
>resources.
>
>
>> and (b) NT's design is fundamentally unsound.
>
>In what way? I'd agree that NT and Win98 have had way too much
>crap piled on top of them, as have Mac OS, Solaris, and even Unix,
>but NT's fundamental design was done by some very sharp people
>based on their experience doing MACH and with Unix and VMS before
>that. I've been designing and studying operating systems for a
>bunch of years, and there isn't much in the guts of NT that I
>would do differently, and nothing that I would call "unsound."
>
>Bob Munck
>
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