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- From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
- Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.235631.16279@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Dec17.033917.2963@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:56:31 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?
- >
- >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.
- >
- >--
- >
- > -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
- > goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
-
- If you think this is a good idea then start a company to do just that.
- You might even make a good buck doing it (certainly better than having
- people swawk over whether you should charge a nickel or a dime for a
- CD ROM distribution).
-
- - Ken
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