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, 30 Jan 2001 02:36:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 02:36:17 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:16914 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 02:36:06 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN Date: 29 Jan 2001 23:35:44 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: <955qsg$a5d$1@cesium.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <3A7575FF.378197A8@ngforever.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2001 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: By author: "Michael B. Trausch" In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Thunder from the hill wrote: > > > > > Don't they understand that Linux is actually a system that is growing to > > > be very popular? > > > > That's why they ignore and don't support it. > > > > Are you saying that they *don't* want it to become popular? C'mon, > support for the OS would be *wonderful* from a commercial > standard. Someone calls in and says "this isn't working..." and they can > say (if it happens to be a bug of some sort), "Well, yes, this was fixed a > few hours ago and here's where you can get the patch." :-) > He's keeping in mind who owns Hotmail. However, I think that's unfair to the Hotmail guys; all the ones I have ever spoken with have been very professional and genuinely concerned with standards compliance. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/