From: Richard C Bilson <rcbilson@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] The new ridiculous license
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:39:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306201439.KAA17056@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
> From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
>
> Another interesting variety was AIX printing, where ``lpd'' wasn't so
> much a printing daemon as it was a generic batch queuing system. I
> remember once someone who was rather fond of AIX defending it to me by
> telling me, ``what other system do you know where you can kick off a
> batch job using lpr?'' My mind boggled and I utterly failed to come
> up with an appropriate response. I had already ported Berkeley
> lpd to my AIX machines.
It is interesting to me, in light of this, that Linux lpd has become
the system of choice for discriminating hackers to queue their mp3
files:
http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/archives/000128.html
Another case of software that is just good enough to prevent a rational
alternative from taking hold.
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2003-06-20 14:39 Richard C Bilson [this message]
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2003-06-18 16:21 ` northern snowfall
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2003-06-18 16:32 ` northern snowfall
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2003-06-18 16:22 ` Dan Cross
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2003-06-17 17:33 ` Theo de Raadt
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2003-06-17 16:52 Theo de Raadt
2003-06-17 17:10 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-17 18:26 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-18 8:58 ` ozan s yigit
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2003-07-03 9:41 ` Wesley Parish
2003-07-03 17:29 ` D. Brownlee
2003-06-17 16:38 Russ Cox, rsc
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2003-06-17 17:50 ` Damian Gerow
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2003-06-17 18:07 ` Damian Gerow
2003-06-17 16:04 Theo de Raadt
2003-06-17 17:02 ` C H Forsyth
2003-06-17 18:15 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-06-17 18:38 ` Tom Glinos
2003-06-17 17:46 ` Russ Cox, rsc
2003-06-17 21:27 ` Tom Glinos
2003-06-17 18:13 ` Donald Brownlee
2003-06-17 20:39 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-17 21:19 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-18 10:11 ` matt
2003-06-17 10:28 Theo de Raadt
2003-06-17 20:49 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-17 21:01 ` David Presotto
2003-06-17 21:26 ` Jack Johnson
2003-06-17 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-20 12:31 ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-06-20 12:57 ` matt
2003-06-23 8:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-06-23 9:02 ` Anthony Mandic
2003-06-23 14:45 ` Jack Johnson
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