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Article #4251Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Christopher Browne
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:43
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:43
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Oops! Dragan Cvetkovic <d1r2a3g4a5n.NOSPAM@soli99ton.com> was seen spray-painting on a wall: > Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com> writes: >> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes: >> > If that caused your brain to shut off, then I guess it must be a >> > very delicate "off switch." I didn't associate anything at all >> > with Hitler or Nazi Germany. >> >> You made a comparison involving Nazi Germany, which is the basis of >> Godwin's Law, no? > > And that should have caused this thread to stop, but it didn't. It seems > that Godwin's Law doesn't work any more, does it? Seeing as how I _didn't_ make a comparison involving Nazi Germany, there was no need. And in any case, all Godwin's Law states is that the probability of there being a reference to "the bad guys of WWII" in a message thread approaches 1. So I'd think this represents an evidence of the _truth_ of the Law, rather than that it doesn't work anymore. -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.enworbbc@" "sirhc")) http://cbbrowne.com/info/rdbms.html Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: 11 Jul 2002 19:43:21 GMT
Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc
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