On Mon, December 26, 2016 9:51 am, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Mon, December 26, 2016 12:16 am, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
On 12/25/2016 09:25 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Sun, 2016-12-25 at 13:38 -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
On 12/25/2016 11:53 AM, Mark Woolfson (Notebook) wrote:
If the server decision makers had not gone for a server designed by
accountants but a server designed by engineers then you would not have this problem.
maybe accountants in U.K., not is U.S.A..
accountants in U.S.A. only 'know' about spreadsheets because that is what they are paid for.
engineering is by engineers because that is what they are paid for.
neither is going to do something they are not paid for.
long live the "American Way".
Lack of vision and inspiration always hampers the betterment of our
unique world.
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this is true,
Great people, all over our planet, usually do a bit more than they are paid for. The resulting benefit for others is incalculable.
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'great people' are usually the exception.
Just think of what the Centos founders did, unpaid, and their hardworking successes achieved - never an eye on the clock and never
restricting their efforts to make something not just work, but work well.
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other exception as near all things connected FSF and Linux.
There are other great systems the above will be true about. Also, many
free software developers are actually paid for their software development work. Maybe not as much as one might be paid for commercial software. Great example is postfix (free open source software), architectured, written and developed under the hood of IBM (thank you, great guys!) by brilliant person Vietse Venema
Wietse Venema
(I don't know where to hide in shame)
Valeri
(thank you, Vietse!!).
Valeri
both are 'given' "in a world with out fences".
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
CentOS GNU/Linux 6.8 KDE 4.3.4
peace out.
tc,hago.
g .
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++