From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262726AbTJGUJ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:09:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262748AbTJGUJ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:09:27 -0400 Received: from uni02du.unity.ncsu.edu ([152.1.13.102]:48263 "EHLO uni02du.unity.ncsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262726AbTJGUJ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:09:26 -0400 From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:09:24 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can't X be elemenated? Message-ID: <20031007200924.GA27125@ncsu.edu> References: <3F82780C.8080408@pixelized.ch> <20031007121825.GA323@elf.ucw.cz> <03100709470200.30416@tabby> <20031007153703.GD323@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:07:51PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > *BSD and Linux have the same goals (at least as close as GTK and QT do), > does this mean that Linus should not have started writing Linux? FWIW, Linus released Linux before it was announced that BSD was going to be free. I am sure that had there been a free BSD around, then Linus would not have bothered. The question then becomes should Linus and everyone else have just quit and waited for BSD to arive. I dont really know how to objectivly answer that question. However I do remember the state of Linux when the BSD announcement happened. It seemed like it was so close to being "done" that it didnt make sense to quite and throw all that work away. Everyone was saying 1.0 by Christmas. It ended up being a lot more work than people imagined. A couple of Christmases past before 1.0 happened. Jim