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Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" 
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Paul Robinson writes:
> To be honest, I think it's a useful exercise that got out of control because
> of people's ideological or passionate beliefs. The impact in -CURRENT of
> typing 'rm -rf /usr/src/gnu' is relatively low for most users who don't
> write code.

You'd lose the ability to read man pages. This is not low-impact.

> Now, DIE THREAD! DIE! DIE! DIE! <stabs mutt with pen>. I'd much rather talk 
> about those laser-wielding polar bears for a bit.

If you sail into a battle-zone with guns blazing, expect to have return fire.

M
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