I see what you mean and you're right, it can go both ways. But my initial reaction was to expect a plural. Maybe we could drop the "some" as well then? So that it reads:
"New users frequently want to know whether OpenBSD is superior to other free UNIX-like operating systems." Thank you! --Murk On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Donald Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Murk Fletcher <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is it just me or should http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhyUse have > > "other free UNIX-like operating system" in plural? > > The sentence describes users who ask "Is OpenBSD better than X?", > where X is a specific Unix-like system. You seem to be parsing it as > users who ask "Is OpenBSD better than X, Y, and Z", where X, Y, and Z > are each Unix-like systems. I think either way is grammatically > correct and which is used depends on the meaning intended by the > writer. The writer apparently intended to describe the first > situation. I don't think it's a typo. > > Don
