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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning
Date: 16 Sep 1993 23:35:25 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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References: <1993Sep8.231610.9740@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> <JTSILLA.93Sep12213741@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> <277do6$4hj@fw.novatel.ca> <hastyCDGHIw.L8F@netcom.com>
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In article <hastyCDGHIw.L8F@netcom.com>,
Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote:

>In article <277do6$4hj@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:

>>I don't understand what all the whining is about... I see nothing wrong
>>with a little bit of parallelism... After all; where would the world be
>
>We do have a very strong competition and it is called Linux. 
>If we wish to win against linux, we are going to need everything
>that we got plus a bit more like in terms of marketing to spread
>the *bsd word around.
>

Competition?  I don't think you can call two freely available *nix
operating systems *competition*.  I would much rather see folks be using
Linux than be moving towards using NT, or DOS.  That is where the
*competition* should be.  

Long live *ALL* free uni*es. 


Nate

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