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From: tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FBSD Future...
Date: 11 Oct 1996 21:16:39 -0700
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fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) writes:

>Remember SCO now offers a free license of its Open Server for
>personal, study, research. 
>I think this will probably diminish the needs of many FreeBSD/Linux
>users to get these OSes: only people really wishing to tinker with
>kernel code will stick to the really free OSes. Most people run them
>to get unix apps running, not for the sake of debugging kernels.

?  I want to use UNIX I run at work.  *That's* why I use FreeBSD and
Linux.  SCO is an overpriced piece of crud I would not foist on anyone,
friend or foe.  Having it at home while I would never install it at work
seems totally pointless to me.

t.
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