From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 8 18: 6:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB6914D06 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 18:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA09541; Sun, 9 May 1999 10:36:37 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA17813; Sun, 9 May 1999 10:36:21 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 10:36:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jan B. Koum " Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ken Thompson clarifies to ESR Message-ID: <19990509103620.Q68170@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990508032355.F13770@best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990508032355.F13770@best.com>; from Jan B. Koum on Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:23:55AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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