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- From: goer@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
- Subject: MONEY + Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.033917.2963@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:39:17 GMT
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- Can Linux go on forever without some commercial support? I mean,
- it's hard to see anything as useful that's maintained by folks that
- aren't doing it for a living - at least the size of a 386 UNIX
- implementation. Is there some way that a useful remuneration path
- can be arranged. E.g. could universities be site-licensed, thereby
- gaining the right to have attention paid to their bugs and config-
- uration problems, and to receive regular updates?
-
- This might seem to come out of the blue to people on this list, but
- many, many people won't touch Linux because they don't see it as
- "going anywhere" except into an endless chain of mixed expert and
- amateurish accretions that can't possibly be maintained properly.
-
- --
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- -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
- goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
-