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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
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!
Date: 26 Jul 94 21:34:17 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <1994Jul26.165729.12612@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
>David Holland (dholland@scws33.harvard.edu) wrote:
>: > : Linux is the choice of a GNU Generation
>: This kind of nonsense benefits nobody. Whoever posted it, can it.
>I thought it was clever and amusing. Therefore it benefitted me.
>It's a pun on the Pepsi slogan, dude! Doncha get it?
Yes, I think we all get it...
>If somebody had thunk up "NetBSD is the choice of a GNU generation"
>then that would also have been clever, though slightly less so, since
>the FSF has more of a connection with Linux than with BSD.
Except that it's an untrue statement. GNU software runs on a range of
systems that you can't count on both hands and both feet. Including
systems that aren't even unix. And, Linux is in no way endorsed by
the FSF, regardless of any connection they may have with it, or any of
the other dozens of OS's their software runs on.
So, I think BSD users have a point when they say "it's a load of horse
hockey" whenever they see such a misleading statement. Not only does
it imply that the BSD's are *not* the choice of the GNU generation,
but that the FSF endorses Linux as its system of choice, and both
implications are untrue.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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