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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!calcite!vjs From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0 Message-ID: <CpCJL5.4w5@calcite.rhyolite.com> Organization: Rhyolite Software Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 20:29:28 GMT References: <Cp72H9.C48@kithrup.com> <Cp7qw4.2s2@hippo.ru.ac.za> <1994May3.125116.13417@gmd.de> Lines: 20 In article <1994May3.125116.13417@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: >Probably, the Jolitzes have no longer news access (would explain *some things*) >Rumours are that they are active on Compu$erve or BIX. Can someone >with an account >there confirm this (or the converse)? Let's hope you're wrong, because if you're right the implications are nasty. Why would people promoting a UNIX product not pay the $20/month required to get access to netnews (e.g. Netcom), but instead pay the much higher (I think) costs of CompuServe? Which is community likely to have more people who spell UNIX with an "e"? Which is likely to have more people interested in spending $100 for a UNIX operating system CDROM to use, instead of impress the fellows down at the bar? Which audience is more likely to think our friend Jesus is a UNIX Wizard and Guru and accord him the respect he deserves? Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com