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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
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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>
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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
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Andrew Gillham                       gillham@andrews.edu
LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst         gillham@whirlpool.com
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