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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:05:20 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? 
Message-ID:  <787.825498320@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:03:35 PST." <199602280803.AAA05147@Root.COM> 

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> >Fine , arrange it . I like to go "down" fighting not standing down.
> >If they don't make port for FreeBSD can you remove the stuff from 
> >the ftp.cdrom.com site. This is my thinking they are so in love with
> >linux yet they have not been able to provide an adequate linux ftp
> >site. It seems to me that they have dollars and can buy the expertise
> >to provide adequate ftp services be that linux or some other platform.
> 
>    No, that would be *extremely* childish and bad business to boot. Besides,
> we gain a tremendous amount by dishing out our FreeBSD propaganda when they
> (the dos/linux people) access the archive. wcarchive didn't grow to be
> the biggest and busiest FTP archive in the world by strong-arming people
> into a One True Way of thinking.
>    You can put me on record as saying that I think it's very bad policy to
> sink to the levels of the Linux fanatics.

Amen.
--
Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
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Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.



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