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From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 18 Feb 1997 18:43:53 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800
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In article <5dfos0$8s9@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
>In article <E575K5.4yq@bigbird.telly.org>,
>Evan Leibovitch <evan@bigbird.telly.org> wrote:
>> WordPerfect, CorelDraw, ADABAS, ApplixWare, Wabi and Flagship have
>> all been ported to Linux; How many are available for FreeBSD? Linux
>> Journal is about to come out this month with its first Buyers' Guide;
>> it'll be interesting to see just how much of what's inside is also
>> obtainable in the FreeBSD world. There is enough enthusiasm to
>> cause organizers to feature a special Linux Pavillion at next
>> month's UniForum trade show ... how big is the NetBSD pavillion?
>
>Linux also got an 18 months at least boost in the race to "market" from
>the USL-CSRG lawsuit. That's a generation in Internet Time.
.
.
.
Are you writing that as advocate or historian, Peter?
I see plenty of evidence on the score of software avail-
ability to favor Linux--although I've dropped my entire
net worth into FreeBSD myself.
--
Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html
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