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From: sweh@spuddy.uucp (Stephen Harris)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 22:33:16 GMT
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: >"In fact, Linux users have a dogged enthusiasm for their product unmatched
: >even by thepassion of followers of the, well, the "A" word. (Psst ! It's
: >a machine once sold by a company with a name that sounds something like
: >"commode door" -- wink wink, nudege nudge).

Err, what *is* this magazine aimed at?  Can't be commercial users because
this style of writing would soon put them off.  And yet they were talking
about mission critical servers.   Err, I'm confused!

One magazine I don't think I'll bother buying :-)
-- 
                            Stephen Harris
                sweh@spuddy.uucp     sweh%spuddy.uucp@britain.eu.net
    The truth is the truth, and opinion just opinion.  But what is what?
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