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From: "Anders Pettersson" <krikkit@algonet.se>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 5 Apr 1997 17:37:23 GMT
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:     NT is basically a piece of shit, as is windows 95...  but microsoft
has
:     the marketing power and user base to impose it on the rest of the
world 
:     and most people do not know any better.

It has a couple of advantages such as a good softwarebase and things like
that. Technically I'd say Linux is a better choice, but for usability in a
office I am not so sure.

:     And, at the same time, most of the commercial UNIX vendors are too
busy
:     infighting to address the issue.  They spend their time developing
'open' 
:     standards that are, in fact, proprietary, and trying to one-up
:     each other.  It's idiotic.  It's sorta like school children pushing
and 
:     shoving to get at the head of the line while a thousand pound gorilla
is 
:     bearing down on the snack bar.

That's how I feel about this discussion.

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