Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:24:35 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Cc: thallgren@yahoo.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linus on IRC Message-ID: <199902102124.QAA02507@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990210152232.asmodai@wxs.nl> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Feb 10, 99 03:22:32 pm"
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai said: > On 10-Feb-99 Tommy Hallgren wrote: > > Linus attended to an IRC chat recently, you can find the log at: > > http://farcaster.net/linus.html > > > > From the log: > > > > <Chris_MSNBC> Josh Bell: What do you think about the BSD project that > > is now starting to get more and more support, do you think it will > > take Linux's hype away, once more and more people learn about the free > > distributions of BSD? > > > > <Linus_Torvalds-> I actually think that they have been going away > > instead of actually making a comeback. And I think they were > > interesting projects. > > > > What an ignorant and unfair answer! I actually thought that Linus was > > a sensible and well-informed man. > > Sorry to shatter dreams, but Linus has been ignorant in a lot of ways. He > took Andy's Minix sources, changed them to work for Intel chips, discussed > this all with Tanenbaum, Andy does however admire the work Linux has done > but Linus has been an ungrateful `student'. > I tend to think that people sometimes mistake a kindly or superficially pleasant manner with it being the same as a kind, intelligent and non-arrogant person. Kindly manner can be practiced, and has nothing to do with a persons inner self. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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