From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 6 21:33:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (durham0-128.dsl.gtei.net [4.3.0.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF9CF37B63E for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 21:33:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 15838 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Apr 2001 04:33:25 -0000 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 00:33:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: David Kelly Cc: Bzdik BSD , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clash of Titans - Tale of two Morons In-Reply-To: <200104070352.f373qdP04404@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Actually, Linus didn't really say much about OS X/Apple, he was more or less saying that mach is crap (actually, those are pretty much his exact words) and that apple was stupid for building on top of it. Of course, he's a guy who almost failed an OS Design class, so maybe his opinion doesn't matter As someone working on a Mach-based OS, I found his lack of information/clue to be funny. /joseph -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, David Kelly wrote: > Joseph Mallett writes: > > No, if he was doing his best, he'd actually make up some of the ways Mach > > managed to mess up. > > The author of the article contributed his part and demonstrated Linux > bias by presenting everything Torvalds said as the bald truth. I don't > know of any Mac users (myself included) who care what Torvalds says > about MacOS X any more than they/we care about what Bill Clinton says > about it. > > Author is looking to incite riots, not present facts. "Torvalds' > comments promise to upset not just Apple fans..." then 2 paragraphs down > presented it as accomplished fact, "The remarks will particularly sting > Apple..." > > As a computer geek, I find it funny. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message