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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:09:23 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and hardware??
Message-ID:  <20081118200923.GC5226@kokopelli.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <20081118202205.W85658@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:22:56PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> >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.
>=20
> and you get something completely different. FORTUNATELY different.

That doesn't change the fact that it *replaced* MS Windows.


>=20
> but - if millions of now-windows users starts switching to FreeBSD, it=20
> will quickly become more and more similar. as linux did.

Correlation does not imply causation -- just as repeating something many
times doesn't make it true.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of
anything.

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