From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson) Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:53:01 GMT
In article <1ihc1iINNh6q@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
Y'know, I've been thinking about this... Folks are saying that the next
release of Coherent will have *loads* of stuff it doesn't have yet:
1.) Graphics support
2.) The GNU GCC compiler
3.) TCP/IP Networking
4.) Sockets
5.) X Windows
That's a pretty big leap when you compare it to the improvements made from
the last version to the present one. Where do you suppose the MWC is going
to *get* all that code from? Are they dealing with Satan? or *worse*...
Filching code from Linux and/or 386BSD to call it your own is a big no-no.
Mark Williams is a pretty reputable company, and has some good
programmers. Don't make remarks like this --- they are rather silly,
and could be considered libelous. MWC makes a point that they develop
all that themselves.
Where do you think linux and 386BSD got the code from? *people wrote
it* Where do you think MWC got their code? Do you think that they
can't program?
The networking and sockets are the only *major* things on that list,
and they go together. I consider MWC fully capable of doing them. I
don't use coherent, but MWC has been around for a while, and so has
coherent, and you are being foolish to make assumptions like this.
Please don't poison the air like this.
michaelkjohnson