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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4520 comp.os.linux.misc:32202 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!sun.lclark.edu!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!fastrac.llnl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: The Free World Revealed.. (was Re: BSD vs. LINUX) Date: 20 Dec 1994 21:53:23 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3d7joj$hc4@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> <D0suzE.B4F@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com> <3d6dhr$qkh@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <3d7fon$sko@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <3d7fon$sko@galaxy.ucr.edu> jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes: > >In article <3d6dhr$qkh@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, >Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote: >>In article <D0suzE.B4F@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>, >> <hartnupj@vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >>>In <3cktrh$8i4@kubds1.kub.nl>, paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes: >> >>Hmm. Surely a better quote would be: >> >>``Windoze NT is to the Unix community what Compuserve is to the Internet'' > >At last someone has got it right! The saying passes the test. >all the subtle analogies hold up well under intense scrutiny - >the earlier quote equating aol and linux just didn't make any sense... I disagree! If you use "Windoze", then you better use "Compu$erve". Like: ``Windoze NT is to the Unix community what Compu$erve is to the Internet'' Or: ``Windows NT is to the Unix community what Compuserve is to the Internet'' Come on, let's be fair about eh? -Andrew -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================