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From: bnelson@netcom.com (Bob Nelson)
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: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 07:04:27 GMT
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On 16 Apr 1996 15:56:25 GMT, Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt wrote:
>> Let me show you something:
>> Linux - It's a *free*, powerful, POSIX-compliant, widely-available, and
>> supported operating system. It's got people developing for it
>> right and left. They're usually just developing drivers and
>> miscellany, but it's there. It got here slowly, but it's getting
>> there.
>> The St. Louis Arch - Same sort of thing. It took those engineers years
>> just to design the thing. It took another few
>> years to build, but was worth the trouble.
>> The Sears Tower, The Taj Mahal, The Eiffel Tower...
...the Tower of Babel...
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