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Re: Unhappy campers

>>>>> On 4 Feb 92 20:57:40 GMT, fnf@fishpond.uucp (Fred Fish) said:

fnf> If PH was not granted a monopoly on distribution, it would have been
fnf> possible for all of the interested minix hackers to organize and set
fnf> up a group that was dedicated to producing enhanced-minix.  This aim
fnf> of this group could have been to produce a single, supported version
fnf> of minix with all of the commonly requested enhancements.  This would
fnf> have allowed minix to evolve in much the same way that gcc has evolved
fnf> over the last few years.  Sure there are variant versions of gcc, but
fnf> most of the really good enhancements, bug fixes, etc are eventually
fnf> folded back into a master source base that future distributions derive
fnf> from.  Thus you would have been left in peace to continue your tight
fnf> control over the educational version of minix, and everyone else that
fnf> wanted more than an educational tool could put their energies into
fnf> enhanced-minx.

I don't get it.  What's preventing people from doing this?  The quoted
paragraph doesn't give any reasons for its assertions.

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