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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 12 Dec 1995 06:31:26 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:
]
] In article <4abkj2$pqr@park.uvsc.edu>,
] Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
] >gt1355b@acmey.gatech.edu (Chris) wrote:
] >]
] >] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
] >] : I'd like to question this premise. UnixWare has a larger user
] >] : base than Linux, yet UnixWare doesn't support QIC-40/80 drives.
] >]
] >] How do you know that UnixWare has a larger userbase? ;-)
] >
] >There are more commercial products for it that run without
] >ABI emulation?
]
] That just means that some marketing managers decided that Unixware
] users part with their money faster than Linux users.
I suspect that there is some truth to that. I also suspect that
the marketing managers are probably right.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.