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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.070346.20594@sol.UVic.CA>
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- References: <1992Dec17.033917.2963@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec17.195753.29891@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec17.232925.6334@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 07:03:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.232925.6334@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
- >>
- ...
- >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
-
- Have you ever spent longer trying to get some vendors solution installed
- and working on your site, than you would have just developing the thing
- from scratch yourself?
-
- I have, and once I even did implement a better system (a network manager)
- AFTER we bought and paid for the commercial system. I had it up and running
- before the vendor went from alpha to beta. We shelved theirs. I bet I am not
- alone in this experience. After that, contributing some of my sweat to a pool
- that anyone can draw from, doesn't seem like such a hardship, anymore.
-
- On the other hand, people like Linus claim to do it just for the shear
- joy of hacking! Imagine that.
-
- Peter.
-
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