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From: Ian G Batten <I.G.Batten@batten.eu.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: *BSD* Security WWW/Mailing List?
Date: 22 Apr 1997 08:57:43 GMT
Organization: Ian G Batten speaking for himself
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.970421074638.789X-100000@reflections.eng.mindspring.net>,
Todd Graham Lewis  <tlewis@mindspring.com> wrote:
> You know, it really is unfair that Linux gets all this good press while
> the BSD'ers are discounted as a bunch of petty, bickering short-sighted
> nincompoops.  Watching the four BSD factions go at each other here, I am
> mystified how people got that misconception in the first place.

The current political situation in the UK rather implies that there are
several senior people in the Tory Party who would rather be Leader of
the Opposition (*) than they would be a cabinet minister under John
Major.  As an outsider, this would seem, sadly, to be the case with the
BSD work.

It's a shame.

ian

(*) That's Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, of course.
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