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- From: marcelo@deadzone.princeton.edu (Marcelo Gallardo)
- Subject: Re: Additional Packages for Coherent
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.025143.1332@deadzone.princeton.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:51:43 GMT
- References: <9301051604.AA14989@rslap.mwc.com> <C0GK4M.1px@unix.portal.com>
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- In <C0GK4M.1px@unix.portal.com> mike@shell.portal.com (Michael Bruce Tepin) writes:
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- >This is an honest question. There is no attempt at starting any trouble or
- >flame wars or anything. I truely don't understand. Why are the GNU compilers
- >and utilites FREE for MSDOS, OS/2, and Linux but cost money for Coherent?
-
- They'll be free for Coherent as well when someone ports them.
- MWC went through the trouble of compiling the GNU stuff and
- putting them on diskettes for you so you could simply order them
- and then start programming. There is absolutely nothing stopping
- you from FTPing all the sources and porting them over yourself.
-
- >I am a registered owner of Coherent 4 but I don't have it installed because
- >the software that is free for other operating systems costs money for this
- >one.
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- Marcelo -
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