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Date:      Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:46:03 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...?
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In-Reply-To: <19990304064953.A252@oitunix.oit.umass.edu>
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At 06:49 AM 3/4/99 -0500, Greg Pavelcak wrote:

>Well, let's see. When I see people at Packers' games in the
>winter with their clothes off, I don't think the Packers are
>worth being fanatical about, I think lots of sports fans are
>idiots.

Maybe; you'd be the type who'd listen to the "voice of reason"
types. But many people's attention is captured by such fanatics.
Folks say, "Geeze, if this is so exciting that those people are
parading around with their shirts off in the dead of winter,
maybe it's worth my notice!"

>When I see e-mails of the `mine is bigger than yours type'
>regarding OSes, it reminds me that many people really *into* the
>software game are not just young but children, in more ways than
>one.

The MAJORITY of people act like children. They just act like
different KINDS of children.

--Brett



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