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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:27:51 +0100
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 01:04:03 +0000, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Luke A. Guest wrote:
>> Open source software only happened because of companies like M$ stealing
>> all of the market with shoddy software and not letting anyone else get any
>> way in unless you work for them.
> 
> It happened because Richard Stallman wanted to change a printer driver
> and couldn't. MS software isn't at all shoddy. It's just that certain
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Have you actually used it? I have and it is!

> people are tinkerers, and get frustrated when they can't.

BTW, I'm very surprised that someone who wanted to change a printer driver
started to develop a Unix clone, seems overkill to me. But then, he chose
Mach (which is a very good kernel) but he never updated his idea to
Mach-4.0 or L4 (which HURD is now being ported to, as a separate project).

Luke.