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- From: ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux
- Message-ID: <BzEyD3.23J.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:10:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.033917.2963@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >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?
-
- A commercial support organization like this already exists! This is
- the sort of thing Cygnus Support exists for. A university could,
- right now, contact Cygnus about a support contract for Linux.
- Individuals are also free to provide the same service. Are you saying
- you think there needs to be a single central source for such support?
- Why?
-
- Does anyone from Cygnus want to comment on this? Does anyone from
- Cygnus read comp.os.linux?
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- Doug DeJulio
- ddj+@cmu.edu
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