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From: gjohnson@dream.season.com (Reality is a point of view)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 15 Apr 1996 18:20:29 GMT
Organization: season.com
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Message-ID: <slrn4n54r5.4r.gjohnson@dream.season.com>
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+---- dyson@inuxs.inh.att.com wrote (15 Apr 1996 15:28:25 GMT):
| Russell Nelson <nelson@ns.crynwr.com> wrote:
| >See? Again and again you address technical issues. Technical issues,
| >in general, don't matter.
| They do if a system is dog slow, or really inept.
+----
I thought that was the typical complaint about 'other' OS's.
Even the ones with really big mindshare.
I didn't miss the point about marketing, did you?
--
Gary Johnson "I'd a done sumpin too, but I ain't no Peckerton Ditinctive."
gjohnson@season.com
CAMPAIGN '96: Juck 'em if they can't fake a toke.