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Date: 12 Feb 1995 01:18:00 +0100
From: kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
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Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com wrote on 07.02.95 in <3h97k3$6m2@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com>:
> In article <5fKBnEpjcsB@khms.westfalen.de> kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai
> >Henningsen) writes:
> >You mean those things (can you really call them cars?) that, after an
> >accident, are reduced to a heap of plastic rubble (with sharp edges)? :-)
>
> Now Now. Remember your 'green' philosophy. The Trabant was a
> very remarkable device, being pretty much an entirely biodegradable
> automobile.
I don't think it was any more biodegradable than any other car. However,
the problem I pointed out was that it is very dangerous to be involved in
an accident with one. They have _no_ "passive security" _at_all_.
Just like DOS. :-)
Kai
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