Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 10:36:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ken Thompson clarifies to ESR Message-ID: <19990509103620.Q68170@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990508032355.F13770@best.com>; from Jan B. Koum on Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:23:55AM -0700 References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9905081415390.3500-100000@hp300.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <19990508032355.F13770@best.com>
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On Saturday, 8 May 1999 at 3:23:55 -0700, Jan B. Koum wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 02:20:19PM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: >> http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5722.html >> >> "i think the open software movement (and linux in particular) >> is laudable." >> >> "... it is naive to think that linux has a hope of making a dent >> against microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the >> resources and amateur labor. (i feel the same about unix.)" >> >> "...the linux community is a lot nicer than the unix community. >> a negative comment on unix would warrant death threats. with >> linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies." > > Ken Thompson is awesome -- he is now in my .sig also ;) The > coolest part: linux folks can't really argue with Thompson since he > is _THE UNIX_ himself ;) What would he have said about FreeBSD? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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