[LINK] Re: Unix {Was: Looking for some Web server statistics]

[Craig Sanders]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:47:32PM +0100, Sean Neakums wrote:
> >>>>> "CS" == Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
> 
>     CS> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:48:02AM +0100, Sean Neakums wrote:
>     CS> anyway, these days it's fair to say that the commercial *nixes
>     CS> are proprietary linux clones :-)
>     >> Considering that most of them pre-date Linux, it most certainly is
>     >> not.
>     CS> it's a joke, joyce.
>     CS> notice the smiley?
> 
> Any joke that requires a moronic `smiley' to be appended to identify
> it as such is not worthy of the name.

well, i'm glad we've got that cleared up.

life is so much less confusing when experts like you give us peasants
the benefit of their encyclopaedic knowledge and enormous intellect.




>     >> And let's try not to confuse `commercial' and `proprietary',
>     >> please.
>     CS> you're nitpicking over a point which is irrelevant in this
>     CS> situation.  all commercial unixes ARE proprietary.
> 
> Sure, but not all commercial _*nixes_.

apparently you feel there's some difference between "unixes" and "*nixes".

i'll rephrase that to remove the ambiguity for you.

all commercial *nixes are proprietary.

name one that isn't.

while you're at it, find another pedantic point to waste everyone's time
with. this one won't last much longer, so you'll need another one.

craig

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