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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:3136 comp.os.linux.misc:21605 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <9407311519.45@rmkhome.c <mrg.775754000@dynamo> <9408040155.38@rmkhome.com> <31u4ja$871@ivory.lm.com> <9408081643.04@rmkhome.com> <michaelv.776412959@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Message-ID: <9408102256.16@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 03:56:21 GMT Lines: 32 Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote: : In <9408081643.04@rmkhome.com> rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) writes: : >Peter G. Berger (peterb@telerama.lm.com) wrote: : >: In article <9408040155.38@rmkhome.com>, Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote: : >: >Well, if AT&T dies, the USENET dies, as they own all the leased lines : >: >in the US. : >: No, they don't. : >: Not even *close*. : >The telephone infrastructure of the US is based primarily on the AT&T : >long distance trunk lines. MCI, Sprint, etc lease the use of these lines : >from AT&T. : Then how did Sprint manage to get all those coast-to-coast fiber lines : before anyone else, way back when? Hmmm... How is it that Sprint customers in some parts of the country are told that my phone number, which has AT&T as the long distance carrier, doesn't exist? The current NSF backbone is AT&T. Soon It will be MCI. At that point a new Internet will spring up or we'll all pay MCI by the byte. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com