Some of the open source people ARE the ones responsible for these
other OSes. Many times you have people doing the open source development
on their own time to explore ideas that they cannot while doing
development work at their day job.
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:16:25AM -0500, Matt Fahrner wrote:
> I'm not pointing this at anyone in particular but, there's a sort of
> arrogance in the open source community that I sometimes find a little
> frustrating. It's this sort of feeling that everyone else can't produce
> code or an OS worth anything. When this is kept humerous it's fine (hey,
> I pick on Macs and Windows too) but then it often rises to an almost
> xenophobic level. The people who wrote AT+T, BSD, AIX, SunOS, Solaris,
> Ultrix, MacOS, (um, I'm torn about Windows), etc. etc. weren't and
> aren't dolts and I think it's a little presumptive to think that
> anything that was written by them can be done better by open source.
> - Matt
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