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From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 18 Dec 1995 17:06:20 -0800
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd.
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In article <4b33ak$bft@felix.junction.net>,
Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote:

>In article <4avdid$qac@cynic.portal.ca>, Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca> wrote:

>>You're trying to tell me that someone who can't read a man page is
>>competent to select an OS, much less build a firewall?
>
>*sigh* Yes.... it happens everyday in the corporate world. Some people 
>are seduced 100% by marketing hype. Hey, if they're gonna be seduced, 
>wouldn't you like to do the seducing?

No, as a matter of fact, I wouldn't. Given the choice between having
few people using NetBSD (in my case), or having many people using
NetBSD and having my mailbox full of messages from people who want
help but are too lazy to look at a manpage, I'll take the former.

cjs
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