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09-19-2004

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Huge dinner party faux paus!

I went to a dinner party/birthday party type shindig tonight - and ended up in a rather heated debate with a bunch of closed-source (closed-minded) OS-B sysadmins. I was trying to sell open source, and the spirit of community driven OS-A, but was met by a wall of "oh well, if it's open source its easy to hack).

I informed them that open source allows backdoors to be patched before they become an issue, but they were not amused!

I spent three hours ranting about OS-A at them and got nowhere.

They (my wifes friends) were not impressed! Smilie

Anyway - has anyone else annoyed their wives friends by ranting about their favourite OS?

Cheers
ZB

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PIC2TPIC(1)						      General Commands Manual						       PIC2TPIC(1)

NAME

       pic2tpic - Convert pic files to tpic format

SYNOPSIS

       pic2tpic [ files ]

DESCRIPTION

       Pic2tpic reads the pic files given on the command line (or stdin if none are given) and writes their tpic equivalent to stdout.

SEE ALSO

       tpic(1), fig2dev(1), transfig(1).

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       Copyright (c) 1985 Supoj Sutantavibul
       Copyright (c) 1991 Micah Beck

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       that this copyright notice remain intact.  This license includes without limitation a license to do the foregoing actions under any patents
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AUTHOR

       Micah Beck
       Cornell University

       Man page by George Ferguson, ferguson@cs.rochester.edu.

								    14 Mar 1991 						       PIC2TPIC(1)