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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
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 10:29:03 +0200
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Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>Linux and *BSD are unix, regardless of whether it's legal to say so.

Perhaps it's only not legal to say UNIX? :)

Well, and probably only in the USA.  I think there's even a car rental
company in Germany with the U-thing in their name... ;-)
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)