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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux
On 4 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:

["FreeBSD will laugh at us"]

> And Linux did not succeed because it was aimed "at the server market"
> or "at the end user" but because there is a bunch of people _that_
> _do_ _not_ _care_ _at_ _all_ about the "marketability" of a feature
> but for the correct solution.

No. Linux did succeed because there is a bunch of people who does not care
about the correct solution but instead implements everything that is new
and cool.

> It is not because their code is bad. But they have no cute mascot as
> Tux and no all-famous benevolent dictator from Finland. :-)

Yes, they have Chuck and a core team that makes sure patches work on every
platform.

Simon

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