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Re: Roll your own software?

Subject: Re: Roll your own software?
From: "invalid"
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:33:51 -0000
Newsgroups: uk.comp.homebuilt

"Rob Morley" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:20091231232910.14ffa714@xxxxxxxxxxx
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:26:42 -0000
> "invalid" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Rob Morley" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:20091231151605.653d220d@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Why do anything that interests you?
> Useful things interest me - you didn't actually specify a use for your
> OS.

The pursuit of pleasure.

>> Which is where I came into this NG. A discussion group should always
>> be good for a discussion!
> Except that this group is about assembling PCs, not writing operating
> systems.  There really ought to be a more appropriate group somewhere
> in comp.os.* or comp.sys.ibm.pc.*

Assembling PCs consists of hardware, firmware and software; any of which
can be purchased off-the-shelf, or manufactured by you.

OK, I'm going to assemble a PC and I want to discuss the software that
I am going to assemble as part of that process.

However, I suggest that you'd be happier if you were to investigate the use
of killfiles on this discussion.

>> That would be no different to being a slave to Microsoft and would not
>> interest me, thanks all the same.
>>
> Apart from the fact that you get all the source code, rights to modify
> it and all the tools you need to do it, you mean?

I'm not interested in others' source code, nor their tools.



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