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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10516 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5140 comp.unix.bsd:13078 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5808 biz.sco.general:9337 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!xenitec!vanbc.wimsey.com!deep.rsoft.bc.ca!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!stonewall.demon.co.uk!nigel Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general From: nigel@stonewall.demon.co.uk (Nigel Whitfield) Subject: Re: SCO market share References: <1993Dec11.012449.99@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> Organization: Jenny Agutter Fan Club Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 22:21:54 +0000 Message-ID: <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 18 In article <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes: >A small, struggling company with >good desktop publishing software for Unix systems might consider some kind >of joint distribution with one of the even smaller companies that distributes >packaged Linux or *BSD systems. Get a couple of companies together with a >good product in each of the 3 catagories above and who knows what would >happen. Or maybe not... Well, as the editor of a computer magazine, I wouldn't begin to consider producing the magazine on a non-commercial platform. There is great free software out there, but if anything goes wrong at a critical moment, I have to know that I can ring someone up and get them to sort it out. Ultimately, in a situation like that, the economics work in favour of the commercial solutions. Nigel.