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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!btnet-feed2!unlisys!blackbush.xlink.net!sapwdf!news From: Joachim Schnitter <joachim.schnitter@sap-ag.de> Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <33427370.680B@sap-ag.de> Sender: news@sap-ag.de (USENET News System) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: SAP AG References: <33322E84.42877E5C@FreeBSD.org> <859945273snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:55:44 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Lines: 27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:168093 comp.os.linux.advocacy:91204 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2944 Tom Wheeley wrote: > > 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! > > -- > :sb) So do I. That is the real European lifestyle some unhappy Quakers fled from some centuries ago. Yes, we have beer, and yes, we have summer festivals with picknicks and all that stuff, and it is only bad chauvinism that it was a European who created the wonderful OS known as Linux. Feeling as a true European I guess that deep in Linusī heart there was the wish to free us from American OSses;-) Did he not do his job marvellously? BTW years ago we had a lot of fun at a picknick being equipped with lots of rolls of paper tape and lots of beer (took some hours to remove the traces). -jo