Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:25:38 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDvs Lxxxxx Flame.. Message-ID: <199601171425.PAA13954@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <14694.821887760@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 17, 96 06:09:01 am
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> Well, I read the letter and it didn't sound THAT bad. At worst, the > Linux advocate could be accused of being a little obsolete in his > information, but I saw nothing that was outright inflammatory enough > to warrant an impassioned correction. If I responded to every > low-grade Linux puff-piece touting some semi-dubious feature of Linux > over BSD, I'd be writing letters all day! :-) The point is that Bokhari is not J.Monroy, and he did not even mention *BSD* (the asterisks are part of a regular expression). As Amancio points out: > The problem is that if we let things like that letter go by in a major > magazine then people WILL believe that the *only* unix alternative > for Intel platforms is FreeBSD --- excuse me Linux 8) and I think this is the reason why there ought to be a reply to the original article. Then, maybe the letter in the Nov.95 issue is enough to close the discussion. Luigi
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