Re: Fwd: POSIX Layer, Stronger Chassis (Was: Re: Compatibility)

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 02:31 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Microsoft didn't do any of those, you must be from a different
> universe if you honestly claim that...
> 
> And can we stick to free systems?  We can't look at how non-free ones
> are implemented, examine their documentation, how the tools behave
> etc.

It is true that we cannot examine the code of non-free systems. However,
we can observe how they operate, what users like about them, and how
they were marketed, and learn valuable lessons from this.

Anyone who does not learn from their competitors in every way possible
is an idiot.

shap