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- From: goer@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
- Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.232925.6334@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:29:25 GMT
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- jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
- >
- >>This might seem to come out of the blue to people on this list, but
- >>many, many people won't touch Linux because they don't see it as
- >>"going anywhere" except into an endless chain of mixed expert and
- >>amateurish accretions that can't possibly be maintained properly.
- >
- >hmm. if you want a serious conversation, I reccomend not accusing people
- >who have probably together put some thousands of man (and woman) hours
- >into the development, testing and organization of Linux of "amateurish
- >accretions". It just ain't polite. 1/2 :)
-
- My apologies. Linus's work has been, by all accounts, nothing short
- of remarkable. But with all due respect, what do all the people who
- maintain Linux do for a living that gives them the time to do this
- sort of thing? I know it sounds silly, but what if Linus gets married
- or sick, or just gets tired of us :-)? I really don't mean to insult
- anyone. I'm just unable to grasp what is going on here. Maybe it
- really is the best thing since sliced bread, and it just hasn't sunk
- in yet!
-
- Incidentally, for all you who wrote in saying, "Hey why not get involved
- yourself?": I'm a graduate student in Near Eastern Languages and Civili-
- zations, just finishing a dissertation on Tiberian Hebrew. I have some
- hardware I could perhaps install Linux on (right now we're a Xenix/DOS
- household). If I were to get involved, how might I help out?
-
- One of my fears is that Linux is really a hackers' tool. I use UNIX as
- a programming environment for linguistic research, using mostly C and
- Icon. I really don't care about the internals of the OS, except insofar
- as they directly affect my research. I'm not looking to have any fears
- assuaged. I'm curious, though, what the "grand plan" is for Linux. Is
- it supposed to end up replacing UNIX/386, or is it more like a really
- neat Minix for people who have the time to fool with it?
-
- --
-
- -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
- goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
-