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From: aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats so great about FreeBSD?
Date: 16 Jun 1996 11:49:55 -0700
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I am afraid that BSD in general is dead. Sun dropped it as hot potato.
Digital dropped it as rotten potato. Everyboy has moved or is moving to
System V. Operating system , no matter how good (look at VMS), which lacks
application software is useless, no matter how good it is.