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From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: Trans-Ameritech announcing: Linuxware
Date: 3 Mar 1995 21:47:47 GMT
Organization: Mount Holyoke College, MA, USA
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In article <3j3iem$6kq@Mercury.mcs.com>, HawkWind <cds@MCS.COM> wrote:
>Roman Yanovsky  roman@btr.com (roman@btr.btr.com) wrote:
>: LinuxWare(tm) - the easiest Linux to install ever, even for a first [...]
>
>LinuxWare? Seems to me like Trans-Ameritech is triing to confuse people 
>by makeing thier flavor of unix sound close to Novell' UnixWare...
>[...]
>If you cant be the *real* thing, why not try to sound like the *real* thing.

I think it was meant as kind of an inside joke... no Linux afficionado
would *want* to imitate Novell's UnixWare.  Linux is far superior in 
quality, features, and plain style.

>	To imitate is a way of flatering somone or somthing. 

It's: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."  Dunno who first
said it.