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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.abo.fi!not-for-mail 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) Followup-To: 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 21:39:34 GMT Organization: Unorganized Usenet Postings UnInc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4l3oem$ona@josie.abo.fi> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> Reply-To: mandtbac@abo.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: zorn.abo.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950520BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21755 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:685 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3318 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3154 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17651 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46227 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. -- "look on the bright side, is suicide" -- Nirvana