From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 17 01:09:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA01701 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA01694 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA00580 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:50:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA12473; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:21:52 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970616072152.PZ31751@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:21:52 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To UNIX or not to UNIX ;-). Was: PPP problems. References: <199706152321.TAA14966@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <8841.866419524@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <8841.866419524@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Jun 15, 1997 17:05:24 -0700 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > What stops FreeBSD from being the next NeXTStep is not a crisis of > ideas, it's a crisis of coders. ...and one should add, that's not since there are no good coders around, but rather since anybody who's got the knowledge to design and code all this is already at the stage where he can get anything done faster without the GUI. This dramatically reduces the pressure of doing any work into this direction (since this J. Random Coder can now of course also do other, perhaps more appealing, projects). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)