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From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: POSIX threatens our use of lp/lpr and friends
Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:12:18 GMT
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>Can somebody please explain why palladium is a bad system?
It doesn't seem to actually exist. I.e.: Who is selling it
right now? And you did notice the magic word "sell" in the previous
sentence? That means that either you'll pay for it even if you do
not want it, or you'll have it "unbundled" and you'll pay for some
of it even if you do not want it, and the old BSD stuff will still
be with your system, but the vendors will sneer at problem complaints
and bugfixes for it.
Just say "no" to standardizing on vaporware. If it's real
good, once it's been out for a few years, everyone will want and
demand it and then it'll be worth standardizing on.
mjr.
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"guns don't die. people do."