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Message-ID: <3351536E.5F49@ibm.net> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:43:11 -0700 From: John Bianco <analogkid@ibm.net> Reply-To: analogkid@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD References: <33322E84.42877E5C@FreeBSD.org> <859945273snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <33427370.680B@sap-ag.de> <01bc43a8$5006c940$8934e3cc@rx_jearl> <860525372snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970413001438.2323A-100000@cdc3.cdc.net> <bnelsonE8K92z.34r@netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 166.72.80.71 Lines: 25 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!azure.xara.net!xara.net!newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!ibm.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!ibm.net!news1.ibm.net!166.72.80.71 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:169569 comp.os.linux.advocacy:92637 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2970 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:172091 Bob Nelson wrote: > > Redbeard <redbeard@!cdc.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Tom Wheeley wrote: > > > > Sorry, you have to drink beer as well. Not American "beer" mind, the real > > > stuff. Luckily for you Boddingtons is now available in the US. > > > Well, I drink Shiner Bock. Does that count? I know it's brewed in the > > US, but the founder of the brewery came from Germany...at least that's > > what my boss (A guy from Frankfurt) said. > > Treason! Treachery! > > Shiner Bock is most certainly NOT brewed in the US. It's brewed here > in Texas. :) "It's like a whole other country", as our tourism slogan > proudly and properly proclaims. We're all awaiting the day when our > Texas slogan becomes, "A Gate$-free zone". That will NEVER happen. Cant wait to install linux myself, but all the masses want in a computer is a system easy to use, and linux is still not the that easy to use still. So unless SUN has the balls to make their own version of linux to comepte against MS in the desktop enviroment, linux cant compete agains MS. People like brand names.