[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <k13qtn$5sr$2 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> JF Mezei wrote:
>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> 
>>>    Spiralog wasn't just incomplete, it was seriously broken.  UNIX is
>>>    10 years older than VMS, still shows it, and folks actually think 
>>>    of it as modern.
>> 
>> 
>> That is because Unix has evolved quite a bit during this time.  Apple
>> ported its HFS file system to Unix, there is zfs and more traditional
>> file systems as well. And you can mount FST FAT32 NTFS etc as well.
> 
> Here is where I get confused.  Where did all these updates come from?  Who payed 
> to have them implemented?
> 
> It just doesn't seem to me that it can work, Many flavors of Unix being free, 
> while having development work performed.  Can anyone show me these people who 
> work for free?  My lawn needs to be mowed, again ...

Have you ever looked at Sourceforge?  All that code is being developed
for free.  The GNU stuff.  Same thing.  There are always people who will
do tasks others don't like and enjoy it.  As for your lawn.  Just let me
say that if you lived in a National Cemetary I would gladly cut your
grass for free.  I enjoy cutting grass and I would even more enjoy
communing with my former comrades while doing it.

bill

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