Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue | From | Henning Schmiedehausen <> | Date | 30 Nov 2001 17:39:20 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 16:26, Larry McVoy wrote:
Hi,
> Perhaps it would be illuminating to know that I was BSD hacker, > and that I learned the value of this particular technique from
I know. You tell us this again and again. Please stop patronizing.
> Sun's kernel group, who once upon a time were the best BSD group > on the planet. It might also be illuminating to consider that > this technique of getting people to listen is still in use at > Sun to this day.
It might be enlightening to you that a closed users group of SUN coders is not compareable to a worldwide distributed environment of thousands of people and companies.
> > Perhaps Sun's professionalism is not what you'd like to see here.#
You tell me, that SUN treated _CUSTOMERS_ and companies that wanted to support SunOS 4.1.x like that? If yes, then I definitely know why they went SysV. Surely noone wanted BSD any longer.
I would consider the internal development groups in SUN that treated each other like this also "in need of a change". :-)
Regards Henning
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