From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:35:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:35:32 -0500 Received: from [216.239.30.242] ([216.239.30.242]:51468 "EHLO wind.enjellic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:35:31 -0500 Message-Id: <200211052037.gA5KbxQF001670@wind.enjellic.com> From: greg@wind.enjellic.com (Dr. Greg Wettstein) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:37:59 -0600 In-Reply-To: Alan Cox "Re: [lkcd-general] Re: What's left over." (Nov 3, 4:32pm) Reply-To: greg@enjellic.com X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Alan Cox , Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: [lkcd-general] Re: What's left over. Cc: "Matt D. Robinson" , Steven King , Linus Torvalds , Joel Becker , Chris Friesen , Rusty Russell , Linux Kernel Mailing List , lkcd-general@lists.sourceforge.net, lkcd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 14:33, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > If you define "unmaintainably bad" as "having features you don't need" > > then I agree. But since dump to disk is in almost every other commercial > > UNIX, maybe someone would question why it's good for others but not for > > Linux. Perhaps the other OS's have made bad decisions. I've only seen one OS in the last 20 years which, by industry consensus, seems to have some hope of becoming a viable contender to a monopolistic position. I would hope that we would contemplate the factors that helped give rise to that situation. }-- End of excerpt from Alan Cox As always, Dr. G.W. Wettstein, Ph.D. Enjellic Systems Development, LLC. 4206 N. 19th Ave. Specializing in information infra-structure Fargo, ND 58102 development. PH: 701-281-4950 WWW: http://www.enjellic.com FAX: 701-281-3949 EMAIL: greg@enjellic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "How appropriate, you fight like a cow." -- Guybrush Threepwood