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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!theory.TC.Cornell.EDU!rtaylor From: rtaylor@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Russ Taylor) Subject: Re: Honesty with 386BSD 0.1 Message-ID: <1992Jun24.225440.2917@tc.cornell.edu> Keywords: 386BSD 0.1 Sender: news@tc.cornell.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: theory.tc.cornell.edu Organization: Cornell Theory Center References: <1992Jun24.025455.3548@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <12adcaINNiuc@agate.berkeley.edu> <root.709414066@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 22:54:40 GMT Lines: 18 According the The Websters Dictionary, a customer is: cus.tom.er \'k*s-t*-m*r\ n [ME custumer, fr. custume] 1: one that purchases a commodity or service usu. systematically or frequently 2: an often strange or unusual individual Anyone who refers to himself (herself) in the context of 386bsd clearly does not fit definition 1. Therefore, is it only reasonable to assume that they fit definition 2. mark linderman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Linderman | Cornell University linder@ee.cornell.edu | Department of Electrical Engineering ----------------------------------------------------------------------