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From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius)
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 20:59:13 GMT
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Ian G Batten (igb@fulcrum.co.uk) wrote:
: Is it just me, or is there something rather odd about an employee of a
: company that ships a for-money Unix for Intel railing against the
: development process of a for-free one?

What's "odd" about it?  I'll stop railing against your development process
once you stop railing against our price and the fact that we don't ship
source.  Is that a deal?

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