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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:23:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hello  -*Sue*-
Message-ID:  <982020232.3a887088ccc7b@mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A88221E.F0427FD1@acuson.com>
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Quoting David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>:

> Y wrote:
> > 
> > You'd be still using Multics if it were
> > not for two men who broke some rules and had fun.
> 
> What rules? And what authority instituted them?
> 
> I wasn't computing thirty years ago, so I can't comment on the actions
> of AT&T. But I am around today using FreeBSD and Linux. Am I being a
> rebel for doing so? No! No! No! There are no rules telling you what OS
> you can use. Not thirty years ago. Not now. And Hell will freeze over
> before it happens in the future.
> 

Ahhhh - the other OS's have to exist before you can use them.  Thirty years
ago things were a lot different....

Ted


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