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From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
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On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 at 17:26 SAT, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote:
> 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.

So where does that leave Linux?  "The Windows95 of the Unix world"?  ;-)

-- V

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