From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] capability-based design (Re: permissions idea)
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:36:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87adz5ids3.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15pPbB-0002yN-00@localhost>
greon@best.com (Richard) writes:
> it must be frustrating to have written software for one of those
> once-popular platforms only to see the owner of the platform let it die.
> I speculate that proprietary OSes need to attract 10s of millions of
> users or their owners let them die, but that open source OSes can
> survive for decades with much fewer users.
Free software operating systems have an automatic edge because they
don't rely on the continued interest of their original authors.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-08 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-05 5:31 nigel
2001-10-05 7:40 ` Richard
2001-10-08 9:36 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-09 2:06 okamoto
2001-10-08 18:16 Sape Mullender
2001-10-08 18:18 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-05 17:12 Russ Cox
2001-10-05 8:13 nigel
2001-10-05 16:44 ` Richard
2001-10-05 4:00 okamoto
2001-10-08 16:53 ` Maarit Maliniemi
2001-10-04 23:57 Richard
2001-10-04 21:59 forsyth
2001-10-04 23:29 ` Richard
2001-10-04 19:28 rog
2001-10-04 20:27 ` Richard
2001-10-04 20:33 ` Richard
2001-09-28 1:06 [9fans] on the topic of viruses dmr
2001-10-01 16:13 ` permissions idea (Re: [9fans] on the topic of viruses) Matthew Hannigan
2001-10-02 8:34 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-04 18:36 ` [9fans] capability-based design (Re: permissions idea) Richard
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