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From: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk (Tom Wheeley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 97 01:41:13 GMT
Organization: Adventures and Diving
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In article <33322E84.42877E5C@FreeBSD.org>
jkh@FreeBSD.org "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
> And yes, speaking as someone who lived in Europe for around 7 years, I
> agree entirely that the American dominance in the software market is the
> purely the fault of the various EC countries who said "Rapid response to
> change? What's that!? We don't want it! We don't need it! We believe
> in the old and important traditions, like summer beer festivals and
> paper tape readers!" Fortunately this is now changing, but it took a
I'd take a summer beer festival over *any* operating system. Mmmm!
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