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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!lynx.unm.edu!nntp.sunbelt.net!udel!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: FreeBSD versus Linux Message-ID: <jmonroyCuFuu2.9pM@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <jmonroyCuC9ut.1n8@netcom.com> <32c02n$bls@u.cc.utah.edu> <jmonroyCuDCG7.527@netcom.com> <32e5j3$gi6@u.cc.utah.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 20:13:13 GMT Lines: 57 Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: : 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?". : I can qualify this by taking in to account Bill's previous offering, in which you will recall estimates had over 1 million copies in circulations. Now, I am not saying this is the present number and by no means will I suggest that release 1.0 has something for you, but I will say show up August the 17th and see for yourself. : If you are editorializing (offering moral support to Bill), then you : should make it clear that that's what you are doing. : I am offering moral support to myself and if what I am doing upsets you, look in the closet. : ] : 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". : nit-picking... on the intend and content of my article. : ] my final word to you is... this does look like vapourware : ] even to me. : Me too, although I haven't retracted my order (yet). : My order is paid for ... and with something more than VISA. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________