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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35164 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1786 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!news.amherst.edu!twpierce From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <C5spt5.2p0@unix.amherst.edu> Organization: Blasny Blasny, Consolidated (Amherst, MA Offices) References: <1993Apr17.205715.11278@coe.montana.edu> <9304181046.aa28257@gate.demon.co.uk> <C5qy6E.6HC@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1993Apr19.211953.66479@cc.usu.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 18:53:29 GMT Lines: 22 In article <1993Apr19.211953.66479@cc.usu.edu> slhpv@cc.usu.edu writes: >If commercial enterprises could develop their code using these "STANDARD" >tools, it would run on all architectures "UNMODIFIED". This could be >the best thing for everyone... developers sell more software, users can >buy software at a lower cost. Currently every package must be ported to >every machine it should run on. Noncommercial enterprises already do this. I rarely run anything but free software any more. >I personally am looking forward to the day that I can write a piece of >code and have it run on every machine I have an account on... with no >changes. Is GNU interested in this kind of thing also? Think about it. They're the ones designing an operating system, after all. -- ____ Tim Pierce / ?Usted es la de la tele, eh? !La madre \ / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu / del asesino! !Ay, que graciosa! \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) / -- Pedro Almodovar