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From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What Linux or FreeBSD needs to gain popularity
Date: 7 Aug 1995 02:14:42 GMT
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Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>I believe I'm opening a new thread on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but not
>on comp.os.linux.advocacy.
>
>jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) wrote:
>>In article <401b05$lgt@kadath.zeitgeist.net>,
>>Amancio Hasty, Jr. <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
>>>>Linux is not going to go away. I mean, who can compete with it?
>>>	**FreeBSD**
>>>Just follow some of the recent postings on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
>>Agreed - Linux and *BSD* are allies, not rivals -
>>God Bless them both!
>>The threat to open systems comes from redmond...

Well, of course the readers of FreeBSD or Linux's news group are not our target 
audience --- most of them have tried or are aware of both OSes plus Netbsd.

	Try Again,
	Amancio

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