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From: henslelf@henslelf.student.rose-hulman.edu (Lige Hensley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 23 Jan 1995 19:58:45 GMT
Organization: Tower of Butter
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alex wetmore (alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu) scribbled:
: > o linux is really not free
: It isn't free to companies if they need professional level support.
: Infoworld is aimed at companies, not your average hacker...
Linux IS free to companies. The support on the other hand my cost them.
So then Linux IS REALLY FREE.
: > o linux users are as neurotic as Amiga fans
: I'd agree with this. Like Amiga users there are some Linux users who are
: so excited about Linux for some reason that they fail to see anything
: else in the world. They tend to say that Linux is the solution to everything
: when it really isn't the solution to a lot of things. Amiga users
: tend to be exactly the same way.
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> > Lige Hensley
> > > Computer Engineering Major
> > >> henslelf@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
> > > skater dude, surfer wannabe
>
> I will rearrange your scales if I can, and I can
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