Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:23:38 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL kills KDE distribution Message-ID: <19981009112338.A29959@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810091722450.22937-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 05:26:35PM %2B1000 References: <361D9EF4.42B85935@verinet.com> <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810091722450.22937-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
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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 Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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