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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:18:46 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MS & Linux duopoly
Message-ID:  <19990908231846.H64229@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990908102618.A68257@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>
References:  <19990908102618.A68257@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>

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* Dominic Mitchell (Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) [990908 13:14]:
>I know Theo isn't everyone's cup of tea, but he does have a point here.
>There's too much linux specific code out there.
>
>http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.idg.com.au%2FCWT1997.nsf%2FHome%2Bpage%2F83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41%3FOpenDocument&return=%2fidg_frames%2fenglish%2ffeatures%2ehtml

This is known for a while now.

Miguel de Icaza (the gnome lamer^H^H^H^H^H guy) even admitted to write
non-portable code just to favour and push Linux.

This is EXACTLY NOT the mentatilty the coders on BSD have.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.


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