Re: Announcement of Oberon microsystems

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:25:18 -0400 (EDT)

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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Rex Couture wrote:

> I am enthusiastic about the release of BB to the public domain.
> Although I am sorry to see them lose out like that,

These two statements are inconsistent. Releasing to public domain
is a far reaching idea that has generated valuable things in the past,
for example Oberon System V4, System-3, OOC, BlueBottle, and Linux.
All these are important tools for everyone's use. Then why are you
saying "lose"?

Fyodor always insisted we should watch our language to avoid generating
false impressions. I agree with Fyodor. We should watch our language
in the public. Many newcomers may be reading our messages and get confused
by statements like the one you have written.

Thank you,
Wojtek


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