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From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 21 Jan 1995 17:18:50 -0500
Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fqh6a$sl@manuel.anu.edu.au> <3frcki$k5k@ivory.lm.com> <3frr04$h43@oscar.cc.gatech.edu>
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In article <3frr04$h43@oscar.cc.gatech.edu>,
Chris Adams <chris@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>In article <3frcki$k5k@ivory.lm.com>,
>Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>>Look.  In picking Windows, you picked a loser.  I agree.  However, if you
>>honestly think that because ONE commecial product YOU chose sucked, all
>>commercial products are bad, I've got this great bridge in Brooklyn I'd
>>like to sell you.  Maybe if you had weighed your purchasing decision more
>>carefully before deciding on Windows and chosen a better OS and vendor, you
>>wouldn't be saying such wildly ridiculous things now.
>
> A better OS, like maybe [cites straw men SCO, Unixware, Dell Unix, and
> Solaris.]

I said better, not worse.  Better.  Like BSDI.


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  Peter G. Berger, Esq.  Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh
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