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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:3005 comp.os.linux.misc:20948 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!ifi.uio.no!usenet From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge Date: 2 Aug 1994 22:24:33 GMT Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 16 Message-ID: <31mh31$efs@glitnir.ifi.uio.no> References: <1994Jul31.044558.12981@cs.brown.edu> <31grdf$o8g@u.cc.utah.edu> <1994Jul31.224245.24749@cs.brown.edu> <31hjgn$spj@u.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sognsvann.ifi.uio.no In-reply-to: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 1 Aug 1994 01:35:19 GMT +--- Terry Lambert: | I don't think it would; other than possibly MIT, very few | Universities are in the Fortune 1000. If what you say is true, then | the UNIX market is truly small, and they need to address the issue, | not by acting against their replacements at University sites, but by | pursuing their real market more vigorously. The University market is probably small, but this is a bit short-sighted. After all, students will enter the job market before long, and when they get in the position to decide what to buy, they will want equipment they are familiar with. E.g., students graduating from Tromsoe will want HP boxes, someone from Oslo (like me :-) would _never_ buy a box running HP-UX, they'd prefer Irix or SunOS 4. Kjetil T.