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From: nelson@seahunt.imat.com (Michael Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 18 Feb 1996 01:38:26 GMT
Organization: MN Consulting, San Francisco
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In article <sf.824590648@thetics>, sf@atheria.europa.com (Scott Flatman) writes:
|> nelson@seahunt.imat.com (Michael Nelson) writes:
|> 
|> >	Three people is probably a pretty significant percentage of the
|> >pool of FreeBSD users, but is scarcely noticeable in the pool of users of
|> >the FAR more popular Linux.
|> 
|> Using this metric, Windows is the *BEST* OS in the history of the
|> planet.

	Ah, defective reasoning rears its ugly head again.
	
	I said nothing about best or better, just number of users without
making any value judgements.  You drew your conclusions with an incorrect
analysis of the data presented.

	Michael

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Michael Nelson                          nelson@seahunt.imat.com
San Francisco, CA