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On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:24:10PM +0200, Joel Dahl wrote:
> From
> /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.html:
>=20
> "BSD can execute Linux code, while Linux can not execute BSD code. As a
> result, more software is available for BSD than for Linux."
>=20
> The last sentence can't be an established fact that's measurable in
> numbers, or am I wrong? No big deal, but why not just cut it down to:
>=20
> "BSD can execute Linux code, while Linux can not execute BSD code."

I don't think anyone has actually counted, but it's essentially a
tautology:
 For code(bsd) > 0, code(bsd) + code(linux) > code(linux).

Ceri

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It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin.  I am a robot.

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