Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:26:35 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> To: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL kills KDE distribution Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810091722450.22937-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <361D9EF4.42B85935@verinet.com>
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Allen Campbell wrote: > Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: [...] > > Another phrase used to describe FreeBSD recently, by a Netbsd > > afficionado was: "FreeBSD: The Linux of the BSD World". :) > > > > Nick > > Is this a hit or a compliment? > > -- > Allen Campbell | If it's good enough for Oracle, > allenc@verinet.com | it's good enough for me. > I believe it was a derogatory statement, coming from a "purist" user of netbsd. To many of these "purists", anything that is used by a large number of people, is relatively easy to use - must be the spawn of the devil. Just my $0.02, Nick -- Email: ncb@poboxes.com - http://www.poboxes.com/ncb Key fingerprint = DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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