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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:32268 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1193 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!marble.uknet.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!sct From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Message-ID: <SCT.93Mar30193348@garay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 30 Mar 93 19:33:48 GMT References: <C4o0t9.DG3@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: erick@demorgan.uwaterloo.ca's message of 29 Mar 93 19:29:32 GMT In article <C4o0t9.DG3@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, erick@demorgan.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke) writes: > How would people feel if companies offerred linux versions of their > commercial software? I will use linux because it is free, net > supported, etc., but I would prefer to use my favourite tools too. > And maybe some vendors might be interested in this as a lower cost > option than NT, OS/2 or Univel. Definitely a Good Thing. The more software Linux can run the better. If users have the choice of running commercial software on Linux rather than having to fork out for a commercial OS to run their favourite apps, then that sounds good to me. Cheers, Stephen Tweedie. --- Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>) Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.