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From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FBSD Future...
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:25:08 GMT
Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL /
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:

>``Using SCO is like travelling back in time.''

>(The quote is said to belong to someone from the FSF.)

Ever wondered why someone from the FSF would make such a claim ? What
is SCO, after all: most of what they added to Unix was packaging  and
saleability, and getting products out of saleability is the goal of
the FSF, with their stated goal of free software / paying service.