[Gllug] "linux is based on NT4, an 7 years old OS - very obso lette now..."

[Chris Ball]

>> On 27 Apr 2003, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj at pointblue.com.pl> said:

   > "Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus
   > years old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a
   > clone of a 20-year-old system. I'm not saying that it doesn't
   > have some place for some customers, but that is not an innovative
   > proposition."

"So, you're constantly behind by tens of percent[1] on market share for
web server deployment by a system that's twenty years old?  Don't you
think you should have, well, innovated past twenty year-old technology
by now?  How does that make you feel?"

Etc, etc.  :)

- Chris.
  [1]:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/04/13/april_2003_web_server_survey.html
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