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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 17:54:03 GMT
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References: <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <3cktrh$8i4@kubds1.kub.nl> <D0suzE.B4F@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com> <3d6dhr$qkh@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
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fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) wrote:
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] In article <D0suzE.B4F@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>,
] <hartnupj@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
] >In <3cktrh$8i4@kubds1.kub.nl>, paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes:
] >>In article <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
] >>vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) writes:
] >>>
] >>>About Linux making Unix popular with the crowd: they certainly have done
] >>>that. "Linux is to the Unix community what AOL is to the Internet". Whether
] >>
] >>(Frank, what in gods name is AOL?)
] >>
] >
] >America Online -- but the analogy is poor - you have to pay for AOL!
] >
]
] Hmm. Surely a better quote would be:
]
] ``Windoze NT is to the Unix community what Compuserve is to the Internet''
Chickens are to peacocks as bathtubs are to brightly colored machine
tools.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.