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Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:26:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us (Chris Dillon)
Cc:        jackv@earthling.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linux in New York Times
Message-ID:  <199902220326.WAA23981@y.dyson.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902211840210.29597-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> from Chris Dillon at "Feb 21, 99 06:43:32 pm"

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Chris Dillon said:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Jack Velte wrote:
> 
> > sorry, no FreeBSD mention.
> > February 21, 1999
> > 
> > The Rebel Code
> > By AMY HARMON
> 
> [...snip...]
> 
> > To liberate the world from bad bugs, crashes and
> > bloated software, the rebel programmers of Linux strictly adhere to a
> > meritocratic mantra: "The best code always wins."
> 
> [...snip...]
> 
> Hahahaha.... The moment I saw that, I thought, "Oh, I guess that means
> FreeBSD will win."
> 
The fact is:

	The best marketeer wins.  Code quality is important, but not nearly
	as important as the smoke and mirrors.


-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net      | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.


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