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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP Masquerading in FreeBSD Distributions?
Date: 10 Dec 1996 02:46:44 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> wrote:

> The General Secretary looked around the room
> with a cold stare.  "We must catch up to Linus,
> and then we must surpass him!"  His fist
> banged against the table.

Umm, no, the real slogan was ``Überholen ohne Einzuholen!''
(Surpass without catching up.)

;-)

Well, the Walter Ulbricht era actually, but he's also been a General
Secretary once...

> The head of the KGB calmly replied, "What
> you desire is not so easy to attain.  The
> decentralized system of the Linux world seems
> have some advantages.  They have been able
> to develop new drivers at a remarkable
> pace.  They have also been able to adapt to
> entirely new microprocessor designs.  It
> is actually quite startling."

Btw., that's already way too much technical details for a General
Secretary.  And, he would never have admitted to be behind the time...
he simply believed _he_ were the best.

Well, history, and probably slightly :) off-topic now...

-- 
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. ;-)