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From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: License number
Date: 18 Oct 1996 03:31:39 GMT
Organization: CICDO
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In article <32606777.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>,
John Dyson  <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote:
>Doney Jimenez wrote:
>
>> > --don
>> 
>> Can't you remember when you didn't know UNIX mr. DON?  I have to
>> learn things before I know them.
>> Doney Jimenez
>>
>I really don't think that he meant to be disrespectful.  That
>kind of statement is usually meant with humor, but not necessarily
>being disrespectful of the party that he is speaking to.  I did

It *was* intended as humor -- sorry if it was mistaken otherwise!
I thought I was outrageous enough in my reply that it would be
fairly obvious that this was the case...

>not take it as such, but I can understand your interpretation.  It
>is *very* difficult to express humor or light heartedness without
>sometimes being misunderstood.

Yes, apparently so...  maybe my next keyboard will have a builtin
smiley key!  ;-)

>I really think that he simply meant by saying what he said, that
>FreeBSD contains lots of stuff.

Yes -- and that it's *free*!

--don