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To: milan; TomGuy
I hear this comment every day. You do realize how many Linux machines are out there on the Internet don't you? Quite a few. You're on one right now. What you don't seem to understand is that there is a philosophical difference between the two. One sees security as being more important than bells and whistles and the other is the opposite.
65 posted on 08/21/2003 5:44:30 PM PDT by sigSEGV
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To: sigSEGV
One is a for-profit corporation that has an installed base to cater to, and the other is not. That's why it smacks of Marxism, though I doubt many open-source developers are.
117 posted on 08/23/2003 8:13:04 AM PDT by Doohickey (Hey, I need you to go down to the torpedo room and get me some tag line.)
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