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To: Echo Talon
I am paid good money to make free software (portions of the Linux kernel, and some related memory management libraries and utilities, in my case), because it's in my companies best interest.

I used to manage a group doing this software as proprietary software, as it is vital to our customers use of our systems. Now we've laid off most of group and I do it single handedly, along with one or two engineers from each of several other companies, cooperating on a common solution that is better than any of us could have done separately. Don't worry about those laid off, as they all have jobs doing things of particular interest to them.

29 posted on 05/22/2006 1:46:02 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (We are but Seekers of Truth, not the Source.)
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To: ThePythonicCow

awww man.. im so bummed out... I just tried to download alinux.iso from distrowatch.com with Mepis 6 and when firefox download manager said the file was complete it was nowhere to be found on my hdd... :( any suggestions? the file was a little over 700mb's is that to large for ext3 partion or something? guess I will download it again via windows..


30 posted on 05/22/2006 2:01:15 AM PDT by Echo Talon
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