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

[Bob Goddard]

On Sunday 12 Jun 2005 16:10, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 15:06 +0100, Bob Goddard wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thank you for repeating me and leaving out the fact that FSF *cant* geti
> t to work, to quote stallman on the problem "its relaly hard" and that
> is why they cant get it working.  My whole point was that apple *did*
> it.
>
> You have so eloquently proven my point about your intelligence.

For the last time, Apple took a ready written O/S in FreeBSD, the FSF
are doing effectively a full rewrite of FreeBSD. A year my arse. Few
people are working on Hurd where as with *BSD and Linux they are a cast
of thousands.