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From: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM
Date: 28 Dec 1994 22:49:19 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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References: <9412261906273@infoplus.uu.holonet.net> <3dqhnp$5do@agate.berkeley.edu> <D1ID9y.L09@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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In article <D1ID9y.L09@serval.net.wsu.edu>, msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes:
|> Then, after rereading both
|> the messages about 5 times, I saw that your response wasn't to the
|> Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.0 but some other FreeBSD 2.0 disk.
Which may very well be what that ``other'' publisher intended. To
confuse people into buying theirs instead of walnut creek's by
making them think this cdrom is somehow ``official''.
Note, I'm not associated with Walnut Creek, nor have I purchased
any of their merchandise. But I *do* ask for common politeness
from vendors who ought to make it unmistakeably clear that they
are not selling an ``official'' product, and yield that turf
to the people who actually gave some support to the Jordan and
the others who did the working creating FBSD 2.0.
Its a free country, and FreeBSD is also free, but respect
has to be earned. I think this ``other'' company now has
an uphill battle to earn respect after this little trick.
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