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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10469 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5112 comp.unix.bsd:13064 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5694 biz.sco.general:9187 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!vanbc.wimsey.com!not-for-mail From: sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Subject: Re: SCO market share Date: 11 Dec 1993 03:00:25 -0800 Organization: Wimsey Information Technologies Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com> References: <WAYNE.93Dec8164902@backbone.uucp> <CHs6H8.39C@Celestial.COM> <hastyCHsyEG.Mun@netcom.com> <1993Dec11.012449.99@kf8nh.wariat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: vanbc.wimsey.com In article <1993Dec11.012449.99@kf8nh.wariat.org>, Brandon S. Allbery <bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org> wrote: }In article <hastyCHsyEG.Mun@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) says: }+--------------- }| In article <CHs6H8.39C@Celestial.COM> ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones) writes: }| Well, I work in Silicon Valley, and most invididuals that I have spoken to }| which want Unix at home are either running *bsd or Linux. Granted is not }| an official survey by any means of the imagination. }+--------------- } }Most home users have better uses for the money it would take to buy SCO, }Interactive/SunSoft, Esix, etc. Like paying bills.... This is a fact that is *not* lost on application software vendors. People who don't like to pay money for the OS also don't usually like to spend money on application software. So the vendors don't worry about the number of users of Linux/Minix/*bsd/?? simply because they don't view them as potential customers. *bsd and Linux make a great hobby. If that's what you want to do at night it's probably just as interesting as ham radio or model trains :-) But I think that it has about the same effect on the rest of the industry as ham radio or model train enthusiats. Well maybe a little more. If I was doing this as a hobby I would certainly be using *bsd. I think it would be a *lot* of fun to do some drivers for it. Unfortunately I'm in the unfortunate position of having to make a living do this, and reserve my spare time for family and other recreations (like skiing, whistler got a foot of snow last night!!!). So I concentrate my programming energies where I have the highest probability of getting people to pay me for what I do. Which right now is SCO (on intel at least, also get the very occasional query about UnixWare, yuk!) -- Stuart Lynne <sl@wimsey.com> ........... 604-936-8649(voice) 604-937-7718(fax) Installable Software for SCO UNIX ............ ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/wimseypd Internet SCO UNIX troubleshooting ......................UNIX Facsimile Software