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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!satishc
- From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
- Subject: Re: Linux Standards (was: Stabilizing Linux)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.182359.15060@microsoft.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:23:59 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Aug16.073340.11418@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Aug18.070709.16015@trl.oz.au>
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- In article <1992Aug18.070709.16015@trl.oz.au> 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'.
-
-
- IMHO, one of the best ideas to come out of this entire discussion. I am
- all for it.
-
-
- > Michael Flower
- > Artificial Intelligence Systems Email: m.flower@trl.oz.au
- > Telecom Research Laboratories Voice: +61 3 541 6179
- > Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Fax: +61 3 543 8863
-
-
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- Satish K. Chittamuru satishc@microsoft.com
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