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From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 15:25:44 -0400
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.misc: 16-Sep-93 Re: NetBSD-0.9
partitioning by Amancio Hasty Jr@netcom. 
> We do have a very strong competition and it is called Linux. 
> If we wish to win against linux, we are going to need everything
> that we got plus a bit more like in terms of marketing to spread
> the *bsd word around.

I really don't get this whole bsd vs linux thing.  They are two totally
different ways of doing this stuff.  People should just choose what they
feel they are most happy with, and we really shouldn't be out there to
convert them. 
Its not like anyone is making money off of this.  We aren't loosing
"customers" per se by having people running linux at this point.  I like
the *bsd crowd because I feel like they have a better idea of what is
going on and how to do stuff, since the majority of the implementers are
unix people putting unix on a pc, instead of pc people trying to find
something to do besides dos or os/2.

alex