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Subject: Re: [9fans] UN to fund linux for the 3rd world 
Date: Wed,  1 Sep 2004 23:38:47 -0600
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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> For the larger picture: would folks at the UN even know that BSD, let 
> alone Plan 9, exists?  I'd wager they don't as even people who have 
> been exposed to alternative operating systems are likely to have never 
> even heard of them. 

today's pull brings another fortunes gem:

	(Okay, Plan 9 isn't Linux, but it's a close relative).

and unfortunately it's only funny because it's true -- people really
believe every other non-Microsoft OS nowadays is some offshoot of
Linux.  can't blame them though, nor expect everybody to run to the
store and pick up a unix history book...