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From: nigel@stonewall.demon.co.uk (Nigel Whitfield)
Subject: Re: SCO market share
References: <1993Dec11.012449.99@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu>
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 22:21:54 +0000
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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.

Nigel.