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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD versus Linux Date: 11 Aug 1994 21:35:31 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 38 Message-ID: <32e5j3$gi6@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <jmonroyCuC9ut.1n8@netcom.com> <32c02n$bls@u.cc.utah.edu> <jmonroyCuDCG7.527@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <jmonroyCuDCG7.527@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: ] : ] I can't say, but I think the offering will be well recieved. ] ] : Uh, *why* can't you say? ] : ] Well, if somehow you've missed the headlines... ] It's cause I don't know.... ] Now you can ask: why don't I know? No, that's not the question I now have; it's "how are you qualified to venture the opinion 'I think the offering will be well recieved' if you don't know what the offering is?". If you are editorializing (offering moral support to Bill), then you should make it clear that that's what you are doing. ] : I was rather disappointed in the pre-advertisement-while-unavailable ] : in the major UNIX rags. ] : ] Hmm.... It's getting to be rather dissappointing ] that I have to remind people that BSD stands for Berkeley Standard Distribution, which, in fact, the BSD derivatives are not. The software closest to *not* fitting in this category is BSDI's stuff, and the reason they don't is their "BSD" stands for "Berkeley Software Design". ] my final word to you is... this does look like vapourware ] even to me. Me too, although I haven't retracted my order (yet). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.