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From: "Jason Earl" <jearl@box100.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 7 Apr 1997 23:09:05 GMT
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> > 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
> 

Well, I am not a beer drinker, and not from Europe, but if using Linux
qualifies you for the "true European experience" then sign me up :).

-- 
Jason Earl
jearl@box100.com

"Cheaper than the Psychic Friends Network."