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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.graphics.cornell.edu!tuba.cit.cornell.edu!crux1!sl14 From: sl14@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (S. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 17 Apr 1996 21:36:27 GMT Organization: Nekomi Institute of Technology Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4l3o8s$5lj@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> <4l0fv9$1bfs@news.missouri.edu> <bnelsonDpzvnG.17I@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.253.232.60 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21754 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:684 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3317 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3153 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17650 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46225 In article <bnelsonDpzvnG.17I@netcom.com>, Bob Nelson <bnelson@netcom.com> wrote: >On 16 Apr 1996 15:56:25 GMT, Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt wrote: > >>> Let me show you something: > >>> Linux - It's a *free*, powerful, POSIX-compliant, widely-available, and >>> supported operating system. It's got people developing for it >>> right and left. They're usually just developing drivers and >>> miscellany, but it's there. It got here slowly, but it's getting >>> there. > >>> The St. Louis Arch - Same sort of thing. It took those engineers years >>> just to design the thing. It took another few >>> years to build, but was worth the trouble. > >>> The Sears Tower, The Taj Mahal, The Eiffel Tower... > >...the Tower of Babel... Very funny :) Not an engineering failure though, unless you call angering a god engineering failure. sl14@cornell.edu Witty .sig under construction.