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From: rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know!
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Date: 27 Jul 94 19:30:38 GMT
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burley@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes:

>In article <michaelv.775258457@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:

>   >:  > : Linux is the choice of a GNU Generation

[...]

>Intelligent people and/or people with even a little bit of a sense of
>humor know these things.

It gets tiresome after the N-trillionth repetition.  The linux guys
are fine and it's a nice system, but .sigline chauvinism grates.
Let's save our venom for proprietary OS-wannabes (finder, m$dog).

regards,
Ross
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Ross Alexander VE6PDQ	rwa@cs.athabascau.ca,
(403) 675 6311		rwa@auwow.cs.athabascau.ca

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