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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!coop.net!cs.umd.edu!hecate.umd.edu!analog.eng.umd.edu!marat From: marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 14 Apr 1997 22:38:34 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5iubla$bg3$1@hecate.umd.edu> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <5ipv9f$itd$1@halcyon.com> <5iu2mh$9qq$1@news1.inlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: analog.eng.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20177 comp.os.linux.misc:169757 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39069 Josh Grebe (squash@inlink.com) wrote: : If your gasoline doesn't work, you put in different gas/fix your vehicle. You mean you fix it yourself or does somebody do it for you? I did see a lot of people who are willing to pay >$50 to a mechanic when their headlight burns out, but I suppose those are the same specimens for whom paragraph #3 (see below) holds true. : If your toilet doesn't flush, theres plenty of plumbers out there. What makes you make such an assumption? Let's take this example to an extreme to demonstrate what I mean: it is 2 hours after midnight. You happily visit your toilet and suddenly find out that the water doesn't stop. Will you look for a plumber? : If your computer doesn't do what you want it to... YOU LIVE WITH IT! *You* may live with it. I don't. Many other people don't either, although not the general sheepish majority. Marat