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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:12:45 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, aaweber@austin.rr.com, dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Subject:   Re: We exist in M$ eyes..
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990215201245.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <36C8163E.44B74583@newsguy.com>

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On 15-Feb-99 Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
>> 
>> I like to look at it in a more positive light:
>> 
>> o       Microsoft says FreeBSD is a UNIX implementation.
> 
> Hey, don't they own Unix (tm)? So now we can actually claim we *are*
> Unix? :-)

Nope, that was given by Novell to the Open Consortium, or X-Open, or
whatever it's name is nowadays... Shame btw that the name which was the
epitome of freedom on the sourcelevel has been commercialised so much =\

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