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Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently"
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 02:07, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 08:58:44PM -0500, Rob Wilkens wrote:
> > If I had been familiar with UNIX
> > at the time I had those books, I might've written ROBIX ...
> 
> If I had ham, I could make ham and eggs, if I had some eggs.

Its not ham you need its utter arrogance and a complete lack of understanding
that writing an OS is a seriously hard problem. There is a whole world of
mysticism around the concept of a 'beginners mind' although to me
"Im sorry nobody told me it was impossible" sums it up far better.

Alan
--
        "Whatever you do will be insignificant,
                but it is very important that you do it."
                -- Gandhi

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