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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Would the design be right this time? (Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Organization: PE1CHL
Message-ID: <D14w7z.6q7@pe1chl.ampr.org>
References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3clp1c$q6p@news.iastate.edu> <3cqe6o$aog@kaleka.seanet.com> <3crhm2$fm8@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> <D1116s.Jo7@bonkers.taronga.com> <3d5vs5$t3a@news.primenet.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 00:04:46 GMT
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In <3d5vs5$t3a@news.primenet.com> english@primenet.com (Lawson English) writes:

>Peter da Silva (peter@bonkers.taronga.com) wrote:
>: In article <3crhm2$fm8@tuba.cit.cornell.edu>,
>: S. Lee <sl14@crux4.cit.cornell.edu> wrote:
>: >I hate to admit this really sounds like a Mac, but Apple did get their
>: >designs right.

>: Sorta. So long as they don't follow Apples "document nothing and break
>: compatibility on a whim" policy. Otherwise you're not going to get any
>: third party software on them.

>Could you go into more detail about this policy?

Now that there is a comp.os.linux.advocacy, could you please move this
pointless discussion to that group?

Rob
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