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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
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)
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Date: 17 Apr 1996 21:39:34 GMT
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Russell Nelson, in <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com>:

[...]

>that Linux is THE ONLY RELIABLE 32-bit desktop operating system.  The

[...]

>do we start?  Do we try to introduce the idea that there are multiple
>free 32-bit operating systems?  No.  This is a bad marketing idea.
>Bad, bad, bad.  It confuses people.  There is room for only one free
>32-bit operating system.

[...]

>You could throw away the head start of Linux, but that would be
>foolish.  Much better to line up everyone behind Linux, and march to
>Seattle.

oh, stop trolling, Russ. coming from you, nobody's falling for it
anyway, we know you know better than that.
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