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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!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!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: 1 May 1996 18:42:50 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4m8bba$1g5u@news.missouri.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> <4l0fv9$1bfs@news.missouri.edu> <4l2u61$fdg@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <4l4crd$nus@miso.cs.uq.edu.au> <31769650.284D5C90@lambert.org> <4lg7ev$isk@news.missouri.edu> <4lmu6m$3cp@complete.org> <31828A39.5A2A8DA@lambert.org> 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:22730 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:889 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3595 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3451 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18490 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47615 Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : John Goerzen wrote: : ] : ] Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt (rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu) wrote: : ] : Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : ] : : ] : : ] Too short sighted. Did Netscape go and write a Word6 compatible : ] : : ] WWW browser? No. Applications *don't* live forever (Word6 : ] : : ] cannot load Word3 documents, for example). : ] : : ] : Yeah, but Netscape isn't a word processor. Besides, if : ] : Netscape *could* read Word 6 files directly as "web pages", : ] : it would be a hell of a feature. : Part of the above is misattributed to me. : Obviously, I wrote the portion following the second colon, not in : the brackets text (ie: none of it, my stuff was entirely removed, : so should the attribution be). I think I messed up when I was trimming the article down. Sorry about that. -------- 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