From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't X be elemenated?
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:09:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031007200924.GA27125@ncsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310071206370.19220@dlang.diginsite.com>
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:07:51PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> *BSD and Linux have the same goals (at least as close as GTK and QT do),
> does this mean that Linus should not have started writing Linux?
FWIW, Linus released Linux before it was announced that BSD was going
to be free. I am sure that had there been a free BSD around, then
Linus would not have bothered. The question then becomes should Linus
and everyone else have just quit and waited for BSD to arive. I dont really
know how to objectivly answer that question. However I do remember
the state of Linux when the BSD announcement happened. It seemed like
it was so close to being "done" that it didnt make sense to quite and
throw all that work away. Everyone was saying 1.0 by Christmas.
It ended up being a lot more work than people imagined. A couple of
Christmases past before 1.0 happened.
Jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-07 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-29 14:44 Can't X be elemenated? kartikey bhatt
2003-09-29 14:51 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-09-29 15:05 ` Gábor Lénárt
2003-09-29 15:10 ` Erik Hensema
2003-09-29 15:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-29 20:56 ` George France
2003-09-29 21:04 ` Erik Bourget
2003-09-29 21:16 ` Erik Steffl
2003-09-29 21:11 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-09-29 22:30 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-30 8:18 ` [OT ]Re: " Helge Hafting
2003-09-30 18:48 ` Paul Jakma
2003-09-30 19:30 ` Krishna Akella
2003-09-30 20:21 ` David Lang
2003-09-30 20:46 ` Krishna Akella
2003-09-30 20:45 ` David Lang
2003-10-07 4:04 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-07 8:23 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2003-10-07 12:18 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-07 12:46 ` [OT] " Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2003-10-07 12:52 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 14:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-07 14:47 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-10-07 15:37 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-07 19:07 ` David Lang
2003-10-07 19:16 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-07 20:09 ` jlnance [this message]
2003-10-07 18:52 ` David Lang
2003-09-30 21:51 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-10-01 14:54 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-10-01 8:27 ` John Bradford
2003-09-29 19:45 kartikey bhatt
2003-09-30 8:09 kartikey bhatt
2003-09-30 9:25 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-09-30 9:54 ` Paul Rolland
2003-09-30 13:34 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-09-30 17:50 kartikey bhatt
2003-10-01 4:32 kartikey bhatt
2003-10-01 5:00 ` Tupshin Harper
2003-10-01 15:12 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-10-01 18:27 ` Tomasz Rola
2003-10-02 8:57 ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-02 18:18 ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-10-03 14:30 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-10-02 18:37 ` Erik Steffl
[not found] <BGWr.3eL.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-10-01 8:19 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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