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- From: yjc@po.CWRU.Edu (Y H J. Chan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:44:14 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, veloso@husc9.harvard.edu (Manuel Veloso) says:
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- >market. My unix friends tell me that most of the base unix utilities are
- >FSF-made (& better than the original); GCC, Emacs, YACC, etc. are better
- >at what they do than the commercial versions. Even better, they're free.
- >How, then, can a commercial firm compete against well-produced, good
- >quality,
- >el-cheapo software? They can't...for long. The implications are, well,
- >interesting.
- >
- >Manuel
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- If a commercial company cannot come up with applications/utilities that are
- better than a sharewar/freeware version, what gives it the right to
- survive? Are we to continue subsidising sub-standard software? No. The
- software companies have to provide more, (ie better after sales support,
- etc) in order to attract customers. Also, prices of software for Unix
- systems are much more expensive than their PC counterparts.
- --
- The Evil Tofu
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