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From: tvd@FATCAT
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 17 Jan 1995 12:15:22 GMT
Organization: The Internet Access Company
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References: <950116203411@lambada>
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In <950116203411@lambada>, ed.duomo@lambada.oit.unc.edu ("Mr. Ed") writes:
>In the columns section of the Jan 16 Infoworld, there is a column
>highly insulting to linux.
[Deleted]
>He then goes on to refer to linux as underware throughout the column
>-- over ten times. The column is also titled something like "Linux
>should be called underware". Underware what? Hanes? Fruit of the loom?
>BVD? How insulting!
>
>What do you think of this?
I think I need to get a copy, and in a hurry! My guess is the concept of
public domain operating system software has Infoworld worrying about
it's advertising base.
I pay as much attention to the "experts" in the trade magazines as I do
movie critics and weathermen. Suffice it to say I go to alot of movies
that were panned and I ALWAYS carry an umbrella in my car. :}
-Tom