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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!kdenning
- From: kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger)
- Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
- Message-ID: <BuMHE2.8Co@portal.hq.videocart.com>
- Summary: What he said ;-)
- Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem bundling
- Organization: VideOcart Inc.
- References: <BuEvwy.2rt@gator.rn.com> <2AB40B3A.4AC7@telly.on.ca> <BuKsLM.IxI@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:56:26 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <BuKsLM.IxI@chinet.chi.il.us> ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat) writes:
- >In article <2AB40B3A.4AC7@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- >>The real choice is whether to pay for it or not. If you know ahead of
- >>time you'll never need it, being forced to buy and then de-install it
- >>is not what I'd call a superior "choice".
- >
- >Ah; you must be a young pup, and have bought the argument that IBM and others
- >proposed when they first started unbundling software. You obviously haven't
- >been in enough real-world sites to have had to curse the day they unbundled
- >everything, so that when a need arose you had to suddenly justify spending
- >hundreds or thousands of dollars to get the tool that, had it still been
- >bundled as part of the package, could have solved the problem in minutes.
-
- (lots more good stuff deleted)
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- What Dave said. Double.
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