thoughts on UNIX and older systems

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sat Jan 16 19:13:53 1999

On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Max Eskin wrote:

> > I don't know where you heard that but its nonsense.
> >
> > FreeBSD = Cathedral development
> > Linux = Bazaar development
> >
> > Read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Raymond to understand what I
> > mean.
>
> Oh, so you're saying that Linux will defeat FreeBSD solely because of its
> possibly superior development model. So, where does the DOS\CP/M comparison
> come from?

The analogy was only intended to indicate that DOS survived and CP/M
basically did not.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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