[Asterisk-Users] Re: Re: Digium Website Update: Asterisk Business Edition

[Bob Goddard]

On Sunday 12 Jun 2005 08:56, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 13:47 -0700, Daryll Strauss wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 13:10 -0700, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Look at 'big evil corporations' like apple.  They did in a year with
> > > mach what the FSF/GNU wants to do with HURD and still cant (to quote
> > > stallman 'its really hard' while explaining why after 10 years HURD
> > > still doesnt exist).  Apple was able to do this largely because they
> > > paid people to do it.  That money had to come from somewhere.  While
> > > apple did release darwin (the mach microkernel+ BSD components - but no
> > > mac components so largely not highly useful) under a license even the
> > > FSF claims is 'free'.  Had it not been for the 'big evil corporations'
> > > that would not have existed at all.
> >
> > You're fairly off base with that paragraph.
>
> you're fairly stupid.  I wasnt giving a history lesson I was talking
> about the fact that both apple and FSF tried to do the same thing.
> Apple did it in about a year (from the time mach actually became
> available to use the way it is) and FSF is stil trying and stallman is
> still whining that "its really hard" and that is why he cant get hurd
> done.

You are the one who is fairly stupid. Apple took Mach, BSD and X and got
them to talk to each other. The FSF, have taken Mach and are attempting
to write another BSD.


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