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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> 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: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:43:42 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32F24B6E.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32ED1866.34F02393@indiana.edu> <5cl66d$l52@web.nmti.com> <32EE3C3C.5534B736@indiana.edu> <5clhf9$l60@web.nmti.com> <32EE7EC9.38809021@indiana.edu> <32EE8FCE.2781E494@freebsd.org> <5cne9r$3i0@camel0.mindspring.com> <Pine.LNX.3.93.970130114010.3513D-100000@dogbert.sitewerks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155414 comp.os.linux.networking:66828 comp.os.linux.setup:94830 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2173 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51507 comp.os.os2.advocacy:264684 Eric Hoeltzel wrote: > Good, good, good! I don't ever remember a commercial software > company ever doing me any favors other than taking my money > because I had no alternative. Only within the last couple of > years have I been able to shed my dependance upon commercial > software. I am very glad that "free" software makes life hard > on commercial developers. You forgot to mention that each free software developer who is ALSO a commercial software developer is also required to undergo surgery to sever his corpus collosum, giving him split-brain syndrome and ensuring that at least once a day, his left hand (the GNU hand) will tussle and fight with the other at the keyboard, making his life harder at work and retarding the progress of commercial software. Of course, now behind in his paid work, he has even LESS time to write more free software, but hey - you gotta break eggs to make omelettes, right? :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project