From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 07:03:46 GMT
In article <1992Dec17.232925.6334@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
>>
...
>My apologies. Linus's work has been, by all accounts, nothing short
>of remarkable. But with all due respect, what do all the people who
>maintain Linux do for a living that gives them the time to do this
>sort of thing? I know it sounds silly, but what if Linus gets married
Have you ever spent longer trying to get some vendors solution installed
and working on your site, than you would have just developing the thing
from scratch yourself?
I have, and once I even did implement a better system (a network manager)
AFTER we bought and paid for the commercial system. I had it up and running
before the vendor went from alpha to beta. We shelved theirs. I bet I am not
alone in this experience. After that, contributing some of my sweat to a pool
that anyone can draw from, doesn't seem like such a hardship, anymore.
On the other hand, people like Linus claim to do it just for the shear
joy of hacking! Imagine that.
Peter.