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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!sprint!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!unicomp.net!cbbrowne From: cbbrowne@news.brownes.org (Christopher B. Browne) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 14 Apr 1997 10:25:48 GMT Organization: Chris Browne's Apartment Lines: 23 Message-ID: <slrn5l3flt.584.cbbrowne@knuth.brownes.org> References: <33322E84.42877E5C@FreeBSD.org> <859945273snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <33427370.680B@sap-ag.de> <01bc43a8$5006c940$8934e3cc@rx_jearl> <860525372snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970413001438.2323A-100000@cdc3.cdc.net> <bnelsonE8K92z.34r@netcom.com> <33518ad3.0@131.162.2.91> Reply-To: cbbrowne@unicomp.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dal2-99.ppp.unicomp.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:169938 comp.os.linux.advocacy:92958 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2983 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:172323 On 14 Apr 97 01:39:31 GMT, Kevin Swan <kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca> posted: >Bob Nelson (bnelson@netcom.com) wrote: >: Shiner Bock is most certainly NOT brewed in the US. It's brewed here >: in Texas. :) "It's like a whole other country", as our tourism slogan >: proudly and properly proclaims. >When are you going to pull a "Quebec" and attempt to break away into your >own little country? :) (meant as humour, I'm Canadian) Probably the next time there's an oil boom :-) Texas has this fascinating situation that *unlike* Quebec, it has the continuing legal right to secede from the "parent state." Which probably makes it near unto unique in the world. I live around the corner from the club where Dallas Cowboys players typically get arrested; it's *definitely* a "whole other country." -- Christopher B. Browne, cbbrowne@unicomp.net, chris_browne@sdt.com PGP Fingerprint: 10 5A 20 3C 39 5A D3 12 D9 54 26 22 FF 1F E9 16 URL: <http://www.conline.com/~cbbrowne/> Linux: When one country worth of OS developers just isn't enough...