The source code of *BSD contains the comment ‘Does this belong here?’

Mihai Donțu mihai.dontu at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 16:09:03 UTC 2014


On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:51:10 -0500 Matthew Pherigo wrote:
> > On Apr 16, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Mihai Donțu wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:41:19 +0300 Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote:
> >>> Lok Technologies , a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of networking
> >>> gear, started out using Linux in its equipment but switched to
> >>> OpenBSD four years ago after company founder Simon Lok, who holds
> >>> a doctorate in computer science, took a close look at the Linux
> >>> source code.“You know what I found? Right in the kernel, in the
> >>> heart of the operating system, I found a developer’s comment that
> >>> said, ‘Does this belong here?’ “Lok says. “What kind of confidence
> >>> does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch.”
> >>> reference :http://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html
> >>> The source code of  *BSD contains the comment  ‘Does this belong
> >>> here?’
> >> 
> >> I am  very interested  in being  answered, please  help me
> > 
> > I noticed there's a trend these days to dig out these ancient
> > articles and try and stir up the BSD people. What's up with that?
> 
> If by "trend", you mean "one persistent guy", then yes, it is quite a
> trend.

Mm. I didn't notice he's the one who started that Stallman thread. :-)

-- 
Mihai Donțu


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