From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 30 20:11:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6561714DF6 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA14222; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:41:44 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA64950; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:41:41 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:41:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Terry Lambert , crh@outpost.co.nz, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990731124141.C64532@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199907292020.NAA01432@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:35:43AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 30 July 1999 at 11:35:43 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Terry Lambert writes: >>> Ahhh, I see, you mean Microsoft syndrome? "Embrace & Extend", what a >>> wonderful euphemism for covertly stealing control. We should start >>> using it for the same purpose in international geopolitics. >> The way Germany did "embrace and extend" much of Europe in World War II... > > Puh-lease! are you trying to invoke Goodwin's law? > > DES (whose grandfather fought in WWII, but who doesn't use that as an > excuse to drag Germany's name in the dust) That begs the question of what side he fought on. (ducks) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message