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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.interserv.com!news From: Charles Buckley <ceb@mauto.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux. The senseless war Date: 23 Apr 1997 18:34:43 -0700 Organization: Mauto Lines: 22 Sender: cbuckley@WALLISELLEN Message-ID: <ubu759pak.fsf@mauto.com> References: <33513993.167EB0E7@sarenet.es> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970423141236.18619A-100000@garcia.efn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: hd1-010.hil.compuserve.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39663 Eric James DeArment <ejd@efn.org> writes: > > I think that every user of Linux, BSD (and its variants), MINIX.... well, > just about every UNIX in existance (spare XENIX, of course) should team up > and CRUSH Microsoft and Apple! > Aww, it wouldn't work. As long as two opponents with valid positions but poorly developed divide, dismay, and destroy skills just go at each other, at least they mutually get the invigouration benefit of a perpetual stance of combativeness, even if they don't ever come to a decisive resolution. But once they start going against a practised adversary, even one without their moral prerogative, they'd just get defeated, or even wiped off the map, and that wouldn't be any fun any more. And then, there'd not even be an illusory hope of breaking the Monoposoft grip.