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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10532 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5149 comp.unix.bsd:13087 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5840 biz.sco.general:9374 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!demon!stonewall.demon.co.uk!nigel Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general From: nigel@stonewall.demon.co.uk (Nigel Whitfield) Subject: Re: SCO market share References: <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> <2elv4l$7bf@panix.com> Organization: Jenny Agutter Fan Club Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 09:42:11 +0000 Message-ID: <9312160942.aa05228@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 27 In article <2elv4l$7bf@panix.com> tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes: > >Unless one accepts the (IMHO ludicrous) assertion that a commercial OS vendor >would within the space of time presented by a "critical moment" fix its OS >were that broken (as commerical OSes clearly are just as often as free ones, >if not more), you whole article is logically inconsistent. I can only assume that you don't know the first thing about magazine publishing. Your sweeping statement seems, IMHO, typical of people who want businesses to run unsupported software. I'm quite happy to do so at home, where a short delay won't cost me lots of money. When it comes to work, I have to know that there is support there that is unconditional. It doesn't have to depend on my staff knowing how to access the net, and the right person reading the right newsgroup at the appropriate moment. I can't afford to use a non-standard solution. I can't risk the magazine not appearing because there's no one who can give me a level of support that I'm happy to pay for. There is a place for free software, and the price of much commercial stuff is too high. I've even written editorials about it. But I know the financial and personnel facts of the environment in which I work. And running systems on an unsupported OS is not an option. Nigel.