8 Mar
1999
8 Mar
'99
9:56 p.m.
On 8 Mar 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
I actually *like* CP/M, for what it was designed and
intended for.
I just think that trying to add bags on the side in an attempt to turn it
into a "real system" will only result in a nasty kludge with lots of bags
on the side. After all, that's exactly how the Microsoft stuff got to
where it is today. So if GNU started today on a project like you're
proposing, in 18 years we would have GNU Windows, which would be every
bit as crufty and unreliable as MS Windows NT and 98 are now.
No, I don't think so. If FSF started on anything so foolish (very
doubtful proposition), under the terms of the GPL there would be a
split and something better would be done from the previous code base
and the world would not end. The FSF _doesn't_ own everything
covered by the GPL.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor