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From: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>
To: "Joseph D. Wagner" <wagnerjd@prodigy.net>
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Subject: Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 22:30:53 -0800
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 00:15:15 -0600, "Joseph D. Wagner"
<wagnerjd@prodigy.net> wrote:

>>> I don't know of any mistakes per say, but if I had
>>> to do it over again, there's about a thousands things
>>> I'd do differently (preference in design choices, not
>>> mistakes) especially not to cling so religiously to
>>> POSIX compliance.
>
>> And then you'd have no applications.
>
>I AM NOT AN IDIOT! DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT?
>
>It's MY PREFERENCE in operating system design choices.  I don't have to make
>it compatible with anyone else's.
>
>Joseph Wagner

Indeed... go forth and prosper... but not perhaps on the linux-kernel
list where polishing the particular jewel "Linux" is in progress.

john alvord
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