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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 16:07:55 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The desktop apathy?  I think not.
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010531160004.04a02910@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <15126.48625.740301.529399@guru.mired.org>
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At 03:56 PM 5/31/2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

>That's more idiotic than Brett's usual treacle. 

Red alert! Incoming ad hominem attack detected!

>HP isn't a software company, it's a hardware company. 

Gee, I guess that HP/UX and MPE aren't software. Nor is
the embedded code that makes so many of their products
tick.

>GPL software doesn't
>kill technically superior products the way MS does. 

Not so. GCC has killed many technically superior compilers.

--Brett Glass


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