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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 18 Aug 1995 12:25:05 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4120r1$ig8@sundog.tiac.net> References: <40ng5m$tr@sundog.tiac.net> <40q6mm$c0l@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <40qem0$482@sundog.tiac.net> <DDGLEp.MoD@info.swan.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:761 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4536 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16705 iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) wrote: >In article <40qem0$482@sundog.tiac.net> Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes: >>Make it a bit easier for people to figure out how to get involved >>then I'll add it to my group tree and change my .sig a bit. :) >> >>(I've been thinking of saying "Free Unix" anyway...) > >Not recommended - Linux is not Unix, FreeBSD/NetBSD are not Unix. At least >not when lawyers are involved, the fact they are closer to the spirit than >those using the name is irrelevant to a lawyer. I guess you want me to put back up my "Unix and Windows are common nouns" .sig then... Or perhaps my "Buy Linux brand UNIX." I'm not engaged in commercial speech here, but rather political speech. Congress may not lawfully regulate political, religious, or common speech... (I always feel safer by mentioning this whenever I get into this topic. :) > >Alan [since we are into http http://www.linux.org : http://www.linux.org.uk] > LI has at least those two "mirrors," and I think one in au. (They don't exactly mirror each other.) I was asked to used the one I'm using, but I don't remember which one I had before. -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX!