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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2848 comp.os.linux.misc:20369 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!rwwa.com!not-for-mail From: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Date: 27 Jul 1994 10:53:18 -0400 Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates Lines: 18 Message-ID: <315scu$1v4@meatball.rwwa.com> References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul21.182603.15882@belvedere.sbay.org> <2NsBkiCqLiLU068yn@cs.odu.edu> <30pn0a$9rf@hermes.unt.edu> <CtEuyA.En1@world.std.com> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com NNTP-Posting-Host: meatball.rwwa.com In article <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com>, shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix) writes: |> Because BSD is dead. I wish it were not so because I prefer BSD but |> SVR4.2 is the future of UNIX, not BSD. You actually made a wrong |> choice by your own critieria. Not in my shop! I have just dollied all of our SVR4 stuff out the door (and into the big deep) after porting the apps I sell to FreeBSD. I can do this because we sell only complete ``packaged'' solutions. Not that it proves anything (other than proving there are counterexamples) but SYSV is dead for me. I now have complete sources to everything my company has to support, and a developer pool at least an order of magnitude larger than any vendor I used to deal with. -- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway, Lynn MA 01901 USA, Net: witr@rwwa.COM