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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.


  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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