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Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and hardware??
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>
> Time to forget this.    It is a semantic and religious battle
> playing hair splitting games with words.    It is not a MS clone
> but it is an MS replacement.   If you overwrite your MS-Win with
> FreeBSD, it completely replaces it.

and you get something completely different. FORTUNATELY different.

but - if millions of now-windows users starts switching to FreeBSD, it 
will quickly become more and more similar. as linux did.