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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!atha!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!usit.net!news From: Steve Martin <smartin@usit.net> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD... Date: 18 Dec 1995 23:57:23 GMT Organization: United States Internet, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4b4v53$kkr@news.usit.net> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4ao0f8$1qc@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4aodm3$gcj@exit.com> <4aq628$psa@ionews.io.org> <4aqdpk$552@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4avctb$bk5@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <Pine.BSD.3.91.951217122906.10281D-100000@village.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bway-slip56.dynamic.usit.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (Windows; U; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:6511 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30746 comp.os.linux.misc:76277 comp.os.linux.setup:32847 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10731 >Um... If it looks like UNIX, is compliant with UNIX standards (as much as >any other UNIX is `standard'), runs UNIX software, etc, who cares who has >approved it? If the tool works, use it. Hear, hear. > >(well, that's not completely valid I suppose. If Bill Gates approved it, >I'd delete it.) See above. >After all, if it has a bill like a duck, lays eggs like a duck, and has >webbed feet like a duck... its a platypus! Funny... I always thought the platypus was a live bearer. :\