From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 17:14:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C565116A422 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:14:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: from parts-unknown.org (thunder.cybernude.org [66.93.170.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5301F43D92 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:14:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: (qmail 26695 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2006 17:14:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:14:32 -0800 From: David Benfell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060103171432.GB13611@parts-unknown.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <84028.1136289038@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84028.1136289038@critter.freebsd.dk> X-stardate: [-29]5108.56 X-moon: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (17% of Full) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i Subject: Re: FreeBSD handles leapsecond correctly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:14:42 -0000 On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:50:38 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > 99.9% of the computers are used by people who are not scientists and > engineers. > > 99.999% of the computers do not track extra-terrestial objects. > > Wanna bet how the cost balances ? > You assume that the cost is borne individually for each of the 99.9% of computers. But there are relatively few operating systems -- the actual development cost occurs there. -- David Benfell, LCP benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/