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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10583 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5176 comp.unix.bsd:13120 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5920 biz.sco.general:9482 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!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!kth.se!lysator.liu.se!pen From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) Subject: Re: SCO market share Message-ID: <CIAxu2.8D3@lysator.liu.se> Sender: news@lysator.liu.se (The news user) Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society References: <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> <2elv4l$7bf@panix.com> <9312160942.aa05228@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 21:46:42 GMT Lines: 27 nigel@stonewall.demon.co.uk (Nigel Whitfield) writes: (some stuff deleted) >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. What's the problem of buying the support you want from one of the many companies that sell just that for free software? /Peter -- Peter Eriksson pen@lysator.liu.se Lysator Academic Computer Society ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen University of Linköping, Sweden I'm bored again - flame me!