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From: msf@amelia (Michael S. Fischbein)
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Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 07:12:53 EDT
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In article <2346@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>In article <1883@encore.UUCP> adamm@encore.UUCP (Adam S. Moskowitz) writes:
>>Why kill yourself to deal with what many people feel is a bad hardware design?
>
>Well, I can tell you why *we* do it; but that particular reason isn't
>applicable to the Free Software Foundation.

[The "we" above is presumably Ashton-Tate ]

How about rephrasing Mr. Moskowitz's comment to be:
Why kill yourself to deal with what YOU feel is a bad hardware design?

If someone else wants to work on it, fine.  If someone wants to port the code
that I've written and promulgated for general use to their favorite odd
architecture, more power to them.  I feel no constraint to write code with
other people's machine peculiarities in mind, and do not attempt to constrain
them to write code for my machine.  If I did, I would be asking the intel
proponents how they could be so clumsy as to write code that wouldn't run on
my Iris.  I don't;  if someone is gracious enough to put useful code on the
net and it won't run as is, I'll port it: that has to be faster and easier
than starting from scratch.

		mike

Michael Fischbein                 msf@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov
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