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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35478 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1866 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 17:44:32 GMT Message-ID: <C5wBy8.D1u@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <9304181046.aa28257@gate.demon.co.uk> <C5qy6E.6HC@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1993Apr20.110521.180705@zeus.calpoly.edu> Lines: 15 In article <1993Apr20.110521.180705@zeus.calpoly.edu> jemenake@trumpet.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes: > Let's say Microsoft decides they don't want to put in the development > costs for Windows NT, so they ftp 386BSD and XFree and plaster > "Microsoft" logos all over it. Let's say it's tremendously sucessful and > MS gets away with charging $500 per copy and Bill Gates makes another $7 > billion. That's cool. "I" tell Cringely and the other muckrakers and start selling my version (the original and the best) for $99.95 per copy, and make a paltry few million. "I"'m happy to freeload off Microsoft's advertising budget. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` My Apple-II has more RAM than my Mac!