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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Advocacy in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc (was Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...)
Date: 24 May 1996 21:37:08 GMT
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jafo@ariel.tummy.com (Sean Reifschneider) wrote:

> So would a discussion about FreeBSD and Linux go in a Linux group or
> a FreeBSD group, or would you rather not hear it at all?  Personally
> I think both camps can learn something interesting from the other.

They can.  That's not `advocacy' in Terry's sense.

HOWEVER, this will usually turn into the flame-war about two rounds
later.  The problem is that not only technically knowledgable people
will respond, but some of those who think they have to defend their
own decision against themselves...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)