On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote:
> Minix is long dead. Nobody uses it.It was a college experiment. > It is a research project kind. If some thing is not in practical use it does not mean it is dead. You can think of research in physics, mathematics, string theory etc etc. If you were correct people will say doing research in mathematics is junk but I think no one is saying so. > Do some hacking elsewhere. > > Don't waste time beating dead horse and find out uncompetitive areas like > some > companies do. > Minix project was provided with some 2.5million euros of funding some years ago and 1million euros before that. If people are ready to provide *so* much money then there must be something really good going on. > > They want to focus on African markets, South America and colleges. I now > know > why. They are afraid of competing with the best talent. > > Death is better than such unfounded fear. > > -Girish > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:16 PM, prasannatsmkumar > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I have made a small contribution to Minix (an open source operating > system > >> with BSD license). Most of the people would have known about this. I am > >> putting this here cause seeing this people may get encouraged to > contribute > >> to open source projects. > > > > Congrats. Please blog this experience to encourage others. > > > > -- Arun Khan > > _______________________________________________ > > ILUGC Mailing List: > > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > > > > -- > Gayatri Hitech > http://gayatri-hitech.com > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > Hope you are able to understand, PrasannaKumar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
