Questionable statement in article

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Mon Aug 9 08:48:19 UTC 2004


On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 04:32:55PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> Ceri Davies said the following on 8/8/2004 4:23 PM:
> 
> >On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:24:10PM +0200, Joel Dahl wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>From
> >>/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.html:
> >>
> >>"BSD can execute Linux code, while Linux can not execute BSD code. As a
> >>result, more software is available for BSD than for Linux."
> >>
> >>The last sentence can't be an established fact that's measurable in
> >>numbers, or am I wrong? No big deal, but why not just cut it down to:
> >>
> >>"BSD can execute Linux code, while Linux can not execute BSD code."
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I don't think anyone has actually counted, but it's essentially a
> >tautology:
> >For code(bsd) > 0, code(bsd) + code(linux) > code(linux).
> >
> But this only holds as long as code(bsd) > code(linux) to begin with.... 
> no?

I'm assuming you failed math.

Ceri
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