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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!)
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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote:
> Your diagnosis of FreeBSD marketing/change/Brett/etc was interesting and
> I agree fully (to the extent I understand "emergent properties" :).

Emergent properties:

"Usually unintended consequences which are obvious in retrospective
 analysis, but not obvious before the fact, without a significant
 understanding of systems engineering, and an application of that
 knowledge to the system(s) in question."

8-).

Or, if you'd prefer:

"Things that happen that we didn't expect to happen, but if we did
 the same things again, the same things would happen, again."

8-) 8-).

-- Terry

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