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Re:The Sortix Operating System by bitwize on Monday April 20, 2015 @09:04AM (#9407754)
> You should just leave these sort of statements out of your introduction. It's generally assumed all projects have some degree of technical debt, and you'll lose more users (i.e. most) than you'd gain (i.e. 0) by trying to treat the subject with candor.

Man, if only you were here to advise that poor college student in 1991 who announced his OS project as "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"... he might have had a fighting chance of getting it off the ground and who knows where we would be today? :)

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Re:The Sortix Operating System by moron4hire on Monday April 20, 2015 @09:22AM (#9407847)
We don't live in the plucky, upstart 1991 anymore. "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." (http://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html). We live in today, a world that has several open-source OSes available, with users who are used to seeing projects on the internet.
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