Re: [lkcd-general] Re: What's left over.

[Dr. Greg Wettstein]

> On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 14:33, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > If you define "unmaintainably bad" as "having features you don't need"
> > then I agree. But since dump to disk is in almost every other commercial
> > UNIX, maybe someone would question why it's good for others but not for
> > Linux.

Perhaps the other OS's have made bad decisions.

I've only seen one OS in the last 20 years which, by industry
consensus, seems to have some hope of becoming a viable contender to a
monopolistic position.  I would hope that we would contemplate the
factors that helped give rise to that situation.

}-- End of excerpt from Alan Cox

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