Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:03:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.971106080221.258B-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0xTQJb-00023X-00@ash3.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Niall Smart wrote: > On Nov 5, 7:23pm, Terry Lambert wrote: > } Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? > > > > I have to say that my introduction to UNIX was via the games. > > [snip] > > > If you kill the games, you damage "recruitment". > > With all respect, studies show that only 1/100000 people install FreeBSD > to play text mode games. > > Niall Perhaps, but pleanty of people who are introduced to a new OS, are shown how to play games on it. Who said the installed games were for the person who installed the system? Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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