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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home
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    > From: Norman Wilson

    > Unfortunately all the quick hacks and poorly-considered tweaks of the
    > past have long since been cast in stone by widespread convention

There seem to be two kind of people in the world; i) those who cannot bring
themselves to change anything, and ii) those who change all sort of things,
usually with no good reason (perhaps just to be different).

The world of Unix seems to be thickly stocked with both.

    Noel