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From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 29 Jan 1997 12:14:39 +0100
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In comp.os.linux.networking, Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote:

>All in all
>Linux is used much more in commercial settings, although FreeBSD is
>clearly better.

There's nothing like a blanket statement like that for invalidating
an otherwise quite reasonable article.