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From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@chickasaw.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:20:23 -0600
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Mouth of the South wrote:

> Not only do these principles apply to Linux vs. BSD, but also to Linux vs.
> operating systems from companies such as Microsoft and IBM, who imagine they
> can forever continue to distribute products TOTALLY object code only.

You don't suppose the facts that they're making billions of dollars
selling those products, that they have increasing market share, and that
the most popular Unixes aren't Linux has anything to do with this
"imagining" of theirs, do you?

> Their darkness will be replaced by the light of Linux.

Weren't those Jeanne Dixon's last words?


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