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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10511 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5137 comp.unix.bsd:13077 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5791 biz.sco.general:9323 Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: SCO market share Message-ID: <hastyCI38BF.1on@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 17:52:26 GMT Lines: 37 In article <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> nigel@stonewall.demon.co.uk (Nigel Whitfield) writes: >In article <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes: >>A small, struggling company with >>good desktop publishing software for Unix systems might consider some kind >>of joint distribution with one of the even smaller companies that distributes >>packaged Linux or *BSD systems. Get a couple of companies together with a >>good product in each of the 3 catagories above and who knows what would >>happen. Or maybe not... > >Well, as the editor of a computer magazine, I wouldn't begin to >consider producing the magazine on a non-commercial platform. There is >great free software out there, but if anything goes wrong at a >critical moment, I have to know that I can ring someone up and get >them to sort it out. > >Ultimately, in a situation like that, the economics work in favour of >the commercial solutions. > Well, We no longer support that version; better yet we no longer support that product. Or, how about 4 week turn around to just tell you that they receive your problem statement and yes they have given it a lot of thought and will in the future get back to you. Does it ring a bell :-) Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X