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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16299 comp.unix.misc:16264 comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit:352 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8235 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!jbotz From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Trans-Ameritech announcing: Linuxware Date: 3 Mar 1995 21:47:47 GMT Organization: Mount Holyoke College, MA, USA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3j82q3$l9n@mudraker.mtholyoke.edu> References: <3j2rbq$sp8@openlink.openlink.com> <3j3iem$6kq@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: orixa.mtholyoke.edu In article <3j3iem$6kq@Mercury.mcs.com>, HawkWind <cds@MCS.COM> wrote: >Roman Yanovsky roman@btr.com (roman@btr.btr.com) wrote: >: LinuxWare(tm) - the easiest Linux to install ever, even for a first [...] > >LinuxWare? Seems to me like Trans-Ameritech is triing to confuse people >by makeing thier flavor of unix sound close to Novell' UnixWare... >[...] >If you cant be the *real* thing, why not try to sound like the *real* thing. I think it was meant as kind of an inside joke... no Linux afficionado would *want* to imitate Novell's UnixWare. Linux is far superior in quality, features, and plain style. > To imitate is a way of flatering somone or somthing. It's: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Dunno who first said it.