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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!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!world!mv!news.missouri.edu!vortex.cc.missouri.edu!rhys From: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) 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) Followup-To: 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 Date: 17 Apr 1996 00:46:47 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4l1f1n$12qu@news.missouri.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <yfglok14n5r.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <31702487.420C2193@lambert.org> <4ktqsh$iu4@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: vortex.cc.missouri.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21653 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:657 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3282 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3115 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17580 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46071 Nate Williams (nate@trout.sri.MT.net) wrote: : If you are going argue, at least argue for things that have a chance of : being implemented in this lifetime. While I agree with what he was saying in his post, I *MUST* disagree with this statement. Ideas like this will be what keep Linux from taking over. There's another person on here somewhere who has in his tagline: "Fight for something because it is right, no just because it has a chance of succeeding." (or something like that) I support Linux not because I think it might take over, but because it's the best OS I've ever seen. I've been using computers since I was 5 years old. I've seen ProDOS, DOS 1.x - 6.22, MacOS (various systems), IRIX, NeXT Mach, Win 3.0, Win 3.1, Win 3.11, WfW 3.1, WfW 3.11, Win95, WinNT, VMS, Linux, the Commodore 64 (what was that called anyway), AIX, and various other Unixes. Linux has been by far the best OS I've ever dealt with for more reasons than I can count on one hand. I'm still going to use it and advocate it, despite the fact that it has to go up against Micro$loth. -------- If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. Got a Linux problem? Or can you help others solve them? Visit the Linux Common Problems page at http://vortex.cc.missouri.edu/~rhys/linux.html rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu