Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Steve Mading
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 01:24

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In comp.unix.questions Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> wrote:
: Steve Mading wrote:
:> :    I showed
:> :> that by showing that it doesn't work in either of the two opposite
:> :> extremes (the actual defintion used would have to be somewhere between
:> :> the two, and would thus still have had this problem.)
:> 
:> : This doesn't follow logically.  Consider the case of medicine you need
:> : to cure a fatal disease.  Too little and you die.  Too much and you
:> : overdose and die.  The right amount and you're cured.
:> 
:> Bad analogy.

: I disagree.  It isn't perfect, but it illustrates the principle.

Yes, I know.  It illustrates the principle you wanted, which doesn't
actually apply because the analogy "isn't perfect".

: This thread bores me, partially because even your technical arguments
: have glaring, objective, technical errors, and your legal arguments are
: no better.  I'm leaving.

Thank you.  You have faulty premises for leaving, of course,
but thank you anyway.

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From: Steve Mading <madings@baladi.bmrb.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:24:57 +0000 (UTC)
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