Comment Quotes - Alan & Linus - Linux Comm. slow respo (Score 2) 639
MS says the Linux community is slow to respond?
Everyone remember the recent Salon article at
http://w ww.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/1999/04/27/mindc raft/index1.html?
Read it again to refresh your memory on how cooperative Mindcraft has been.
Couple of quotes:
"I've traded a couple of e-mails with Mindcraft people about this," says Alan Cox. "They seem solely intent on trying to re-create their existing pro-Microsoft results and hoping, by attaching some kind of 'Linux top mind' credibility to it, they can do more damage."
"The whole thing has been fairly painful," says Torvalds. "Mostly because these people don't actually let us know what the hell they are doing. We've been offering to be on site to see what the hell is going on, but so far they've refused."
Everyone remember the recent Salon article at
http://w ww.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/1999/04/27/mind
Read it again to refresh your memory on how cooperative Mindcraft has been.
Couple of quotes:
"I've traded a couple of e-mails with Mindcraft people about this," says Alan Cox. "They seem solely intent on trying to re-create their existing pro-Microsoft results and hoping, by attaching some kind of 'Linux top mind' credibility to it, they can do more damage."
"The whole thing has been fairly painful," says Torvalds. "Mostly because these people don't actually let us know what the hell they are doing. We've been offering to be on site to see what the hell is going on, but so far they've refused."
