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Article #4284Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: SW
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:50
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:50
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"Steve Mading" <madings@baladi.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote in message news:agfskd$pa9$5@news.doit.wisc.edu... > Thanks for omitting the argument and not responding. > Do you call a wooden table "a wood"? Do you call a > metal car "a metal"? So why call a set of software > containing a lot of GNU a "GNU"? Before I said the > name of a thing is the wrong place to put it's > bibliography. Now I'll add to that that it is also > the wrong place to put the ingredient list, not even > the most prominent ingredient. > > I think I'll take a sip of this water. Okay, granted > it's got carbon dioxide bubbles in it, and "high > fructose corn syrup", and sugar, and other stuff", > but by your logic I should call it "water" instead > of "soda" or "pop", because the name of a thing > should be its most prominent ingredient. Once, and it's amusing. Twice, and you undoubtedly enjoyed the 60's way too much.
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