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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: Can we quit with the "LINUX SUCKS" headers now please?
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 05:33:36 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@freefall.cdrom.com) wrote:
: It hardly looks professional for newcomers to these newsgroups to see
: dozens of messages with the subject "LINUX SUCKS"; it makes everyone
: here look like a bunch of flamers who's own operating system has so
: little going for it that all they can do with their spare time is
: throw rocks at the other.

: Please, Linux does NOT suck.  It's got some nice features and instead
: of flaming it, we really ought be looking very very hard at just why
: it's got a user base about 5 times bigger than ours and thinking of
: how we might address this imbalance!  As the old saying goes "You
: really can't argue with success."
:
	I agree with Jordan.

	Although this thread may be my fault, I have no 
	way to control it other than not adding to it
	(like I did tonight)

	With respect to Jordan's request, I won't post to
	this thread and ask that others do the same...
	at the very least change the "Subject" line.

	Thanks.

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Jesus Monroy Jr                                          jmonroy@netcom.com
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