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From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD's strengths
Date: 28 Aug 1995 17:51:27 GMT
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Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>] Do you mean that there aren't any real differences between them?
>
>There are.
>
>But the type of person who would take someone else's casual
>comparisons and use them to make decisions is the type of person
>who should be prevented from obtaining casual comparisons.

There are casual comparisons for the purpose of enlightening
further research and there are casual comparisions for the
benefit of ckecking off a box...

>
>For non-casual comparisons, you will need to specify precise
>release version numbers and pay my inflated consulting rates
>that I charge for doing things that I don't like to do unless
>someone pays me inflated consulting rates.

Not now, thank you.  I don't have the casual comparisons
required such that I'll be able to ask intelligent questions.
I wouldn't want to waste my employer's money asking dumb
questions at inflated rates.

-- 
Jim Williams.

Find a Linux/GNU User Group near you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/