Re: [REL] Reference to Linux OS in last week's X-files

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From: James Mcpherson
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:00

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Jason Stokes (j.stokes@OUT-DAMNED-SPAM.bohm.anu.edu.au) spake thusly:
: Did anyone notice the reference to the free Unix operating system Linux in
: last week's movie length X-Files?  Towards the end, Cancer Man is talking to
: a co-conspirator about a fellow called Fecili Peskov:
:  "He was a KGB Line-ex stringer working out of Moscow center."
: Ok, the actor managed to pronoune it wrong, but I'm sure that was a
: reference to Linux, presumabely riding on the story in the New York Times
: that mentioned Linux as the OS of choice for "computer hackers."
: Still, any publicity is good publicity.

actually, not true. Firstly, it was __Vasili Peskov__; secondly, "Line X" 
was a department of the KGB which, I think, dealt with so-called "wet" 
operations -- bloody ones like killing people.

jcm
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From: mljmcphe@mailbox.uq.edu.au (James Mcpherson)
Subject: Re: [REL] Reference to Linux OS in last week's X-files
Date: 1997/04/14
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