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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2206 comp.os.linux.misc:12347 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!brown From: brown@cs.swarthmore.edu (Randolph G. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 3 Apr 1994 23:27:07 GMT Organization: Swarthmore College Computer Science, Swarthmore, PA, USA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2nnjcb$pdo@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu> <JKH.94Apr3184442@whisker.hubbard.ie> <MAGNUS.94Apr3194958@haukugle.ii.uib.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: nutmeg.cs.swarthmore.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit magnus@ii.uib.no writes: > >>>>> "J" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie> writes: > > J> without public help and support. If we get fed up and go away, > J> where will that have gotten everyone? > > Well, everyone will be using Linux. > As a long-time Linux user, I'd like to apologize to the *BSD community for this person's stupid snide comment. Frankly, I think it's good in the long run that we now have _3_ distinct evolving free-unix communities --- the cross-fertilization will be good for all three, at least for a while. Their work does us all good, and the loss of one community will harm us all. Please don't stop. -Randy