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From: evan@bigbird.telly.org (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Organization: Sound Software
Message-ID: <E576qq.5ss@bigbird.telly.org>
References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32EE6844.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <E504AI.Jsu@bigbird.telly.org> <32F54717.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 20:11:14 GMT
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In article <32F54717.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>,
	John S. Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> Explain how Russell wasn't right a year
>> ago. Dredge up your original answer from the archives if it'll help.
>> Demonstrate that you can deal with opposition without resorting to
>> whining about when you first encountered the dissent.

>Actually, it is BSD freedom lovers who have the dissenting opinion,
>against the big, bad GPL self replicating machine :-).

Rusell made a comment.
You replied with a personal attack.
I asked you to deal with his objection.
You replied by changing the subject.

I can only infer that you are incapable of dealing with the content
of Russell's objections (even though you were only too happy to insult
Russell), and therefore that his points are all valid.

-- 
  Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
 Supporting PC-based Unix since 1985 / Caldera & SCO authorized / www.telly.org
 Trains stop at train stations. Buses stop at bus stations. I use a workstation.