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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10523 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5141 comp.unix.bsd:13080 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5814 biz.sco.general:9344 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!panix!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Subject: Re: SCO market share Message-ID: <2elv4l$7bf@panix.com> Date: 14 Dec 93 17:09:09 GMT Article-I.D.: panix.2elv4l$7bf References: <1993Dec11.012449.99@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com In article <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk>, Nigel Whitfield <nigel@stonewall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >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. Unless one accepts the (IMHO ludicrous) assertion that a commercial OS vendor would within the space of time presented by a "critical moment" fix its OS were that broken (as commerical OSes clearly are just as often as free ones, if not more), you whole article is logically inconsistent. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud