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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.192433.21538@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:24:33 GMT
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- In article <2B5C2DA6.9A77@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
- | I can't help but think that when a hacker is reduced to pushing a
- | commercial UNIX -- ANY commercial UNIX -- instead of Linux or 386BSD,
- | she may win the battle, but she will have lost the war.
-
- Time to realize that there is room for both commercial and free
- software, and not try to use one solution to all problems. And I think
- you know that and are just agitating...
-
- Some people like to hack the o/s and some like to do applications.
- After a while you want a change, and want to DO something with your
- system (I know people who's favorite app is kdb, they're sick).
- Personally I've been on a team which wrote an o/s, designed and written
- a multitask multiproc o/s by myself, and while I run Linux for fun, I
- keep it as a porting target, not a way of life. I develop apps on a
- commercial o/s, both for fun and professionally.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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