From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 10 13:25:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21216 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA21208 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 20007 invoked from network); 10 Feb 1999 21:24:44 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 10 Feb 1999 21:24:44 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA02507; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:24:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902102124.QAA02507@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Linus on IRC In-Reply-To: from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Feb 10, 99 03:22:32 pm" To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:24:35 -0500 (EST) Cc: thallgren@yahoo.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai said: > On 10-Feb-99 Tommy Hallgren wrote: > > Linus attended to an IRC chat recently, you can find the log at: > > http://farcaster.net/linus.html > > > > From the log: > > > > Josh Bell: What do you think about the BSD project that > > is now starting to get more and more support, do you think it will > > take Linux's hype away, once more and more people learn about the free > > distributions of BSD? > > > > I actually think that they have been going away > > instead of actually making a comeback. And I think they were > > interesting projects. > > > > What an ignorant and unfair answer! I actually thought that Linus was > > a sensible and well-informed man. > > Sorry to shatter dreams, but Linus has been ignorant in a lot of ways. He > took Andy's Minix sources, changed them to work for Intel chips, discussed > this all with Tanenbaum, Andy does however admire the work Linux has done > but Linus has been an ungrateful `student'. > I tend to think that people sometimes mistake a kindly or superficially pleasant manner with it being the same as a kind, intelligent and non-arrogant person. Kindly manner can be practiced, and has nothing to do with a persons inner self. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message