Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:42:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Donn Miller <dmmiller@zoominternet.net> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmr on Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <200107291142.f6TBgBY34414@acs-24-154-37-140.zoominternet.net> In-Reply-To: <20010701130512.A478_sydney.worldwide.lemis.com@ns.sol.net>
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In article <20010701130512.A478_sydney.worldwide.lemis.com@ns.sol.net> you wrote: > LM: Have you ever looked at the Linux source code? > > dmr: I haven't looked in a lot of detail. A year and a half ago or > so, we ported Inferno to it, and it was somewhat of a pain. > Somebody discovered a driver--I guess--some place in the kernel > that had some extremely stupid thing going on. It was about then > that Ken gave some interview, and he remarked that he didn't > think very much of the quality of the code. LM: Well, if you think that's bad, you should see the Windows 98 source code. dmr: Heh heh! I'd be willing to bet there's quite a number of "extremely stupid" things going on in KERNEL32.DLL, so yes, I suppose it really is all relative. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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