Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 18:45:56 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Message-ID: <19980513184556.A517@shale.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980513121249.18203A-100000@mariner.cris.com>; from Andrew Short on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 12:17:02PM -0400 References: <9338.895071897@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980513121249.18203A-100000@mariner.cris.com>
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Hi, On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 12:17:02PM -0400, Andrew Short wrote: > A TON of people know the name "Linux". More still "NT", and well, > every joe who has seen Technology news on CNN thinks they can talk about > Windows95...and now 98. (No offense to people named Joe, nor to the > Wordstar-like text editor). My theory is that the downfall of Microsoft started when jokes about Win95 and Bill Gates started to become popular outside of 'hacker' circles. -Jeremy Ob-advocacy: Persuade Scott Adams to feature FreeBSD. With some well positioned 'Bill' puns. I'm sure he'd go for an OS that featured a daemon as it's logo... -- | ----------------------------------------------------- --+-- "What a crazy world we live in, | we save the whales yet support abortion" - MIC | ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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