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

Sahil Gupta sgupta at voicevalley.com.au
Sun Jun 12 09:01:37 MST 2005


Take this off list please..

Regards,


Sahil Gupta
VoiceValley

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Bob Goddard wrote:

> 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.
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