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Date:      Mon, 04 May 1998 06:53:07 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley 
Message-ID:  <199805041153.GAA07744@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Phillip Salzman <advocacy@saten.dyn.ml.org>  of "Mon, 04 May 1998 01:03:57 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504010042.465A-100000@saten.dyn.ml.org> 

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Phillip Salzman writes:
> > 
> > Actually, it would be nice if M$ would do that, perhaps it would greatly
> > reduce the bugcount in their software and make it more useable.  :-)
> > --
> > Jonathan
> 
> 
> That would be a cool thing for M$ to do, that way some people would
> find out M$ 'borrowed' it from FreeBSD... and the word would spread
> until everyone knows that M$ is full of annoying worms.  Those people
> would then goto ftp.freebsd.org and download the installation diskette
> and send back their M$ purchase.
> 
> This would cause M$ to lose market share, and money.. forcing them
> to stop selling OS's, and die.

I've been thinking that considering Netscape's release of their browser 
source code that maybe it would be a good idea for IBM to do the same 
with OS/2. IBM can't be collecting very much money selling OS/2. Well, 
at least not much in IBM scale.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
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