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- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Apple/Novell merger discussed
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <724526532snx@crynwr.com>
- References: <suLVVB13w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 17:22:12 GMT
- Organization: Crynwr Software
- Lines: 17
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- In article <suLVVB13w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew writes:
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- bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
- > San Jose Mercury News via First!: Executives of Apple Computer Inc.
- > and Novell Inc. have engaged in top-level discussions in recent weeks
- > about the possibility of rewriting the rules of the computing world by
- > merging their two companies into an $8 billion hardware-software
- > giant.
-
- That would be interesting. We'd get to see whether the FSF would stick to
- their professed principles and boycott DOS machines.
-
- Being ridiculous as usual, eh? DOS machines do more than run DOS.
- They also run Linux very well. In fact, Linux runs a LOT faster on a
- DOS machine than DOS does. Something about using it like a 32-bit
- machine instead of an 8-bit machine.
-
- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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