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- From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
- Subject: Re: Amiga / Mac and NeXTStep..
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- References: <1992Nov8.210118.12604@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:41:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.210118.12604@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- writes:
- > A final word about piracy--If piracy is a legitimate
- > fear, then the single most dangerous platform would be
- > the PC. I _have_ seen BBS's with copies of various
- > UNIX clones (>40megs compressed) online. PC pirates
- > get together regularly to swap software, normally
- > bringing their machines (or copies on tape backup).
-
- Uh, not all of them are illegitimate. Our favorite site
- nova, for instance, has a (currently :-) ) legit UN*X for
- 486 machines. I won't deny that piracy is immense in the
- PClone market, but with free BSD stuff, I doubt UNIX is a
- big part of it.
-
- I do think that NeXTstep '486 will be widely stolen,
- however. The price is too high for the street level users I
- know. They're into PClones because they're cheap- even
- more so than I'm into the Amiga for that reason.
-
- And as a long time NeXT and Amiga user, I'd love to have
- NeXTstep on my '040 Amiga at home.
-
- ab
-