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- From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux Standards (was: Stabilizing Linux)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.171809.10497@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 17:18:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.073340.11418@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Aug18.070709.16015@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns)
- Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
- Organization: You must be kidding!
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Aug18.070709.16015@trl.oz.au> of comp.os.linux,
- mcf@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Michael Flower) writes:
- > From article <1992Aug16.073340.11418@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, by torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds):
- >
- > > ......
- > > overreaction to the price I had to pay for minix ($169 may not be much,
- > > but it's still more than I can afford: I'm still paying monthly
- > > installments on my machine) and (b) protection: linux wasn't well-known
- > > .....
- >
- > Ok guys, what say someone organises a whip around to pay off this beast.
- > It seems to me that there are an awful lot of people around that are
- > using Linux, and getting a lot of fun and interest out of it, and for a
- > small trouble we could pay off the machine, and allow Linus's mind
- > fuller scope to spend on the problem in hand rather than the monthly payments
- > on the box. Perhaps as a gesture of saying 'thanx'. I realise that there
- > are many
- > other people that also contribute, but after all, Linus started this game.
- >
-
- I like this idea. After freaking out the line printer operators at my
- school by dumping the Linux source tree to printer I have gotten quite a
- concept just how much effort has gone into this marvelous piece of code. I
- would volunteer to take up contributions in the USA, but I will be moving
- in less than a month. Maybe I should try to see if my dep't at school
- would let me receive mail there.
-
- /hpa
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