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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:3169 comp.org.eff.talk:8497 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!emx.utexas.edu!lynch From: lynch@phroed.cc.utexas.edu (Tom Lynch) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: USL's Pieper profiled in UNIXWorld (selections) Message-ID: <LYNCH.92Aug5023913@phroed.cc.utexas.edu> Date: 5 Aug 92 07:39:13 GMT References: <jsaker.712460034@cwis> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Followup-To: alt.suit.att-bsdi Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 19 In-reply-to: jsaker@cwis.unomaha.edu's message of 30 Jul 92 01:33:54 GMT It is quite amazing that these companies spend millions of dollars on marketing hype and lawyers to make a product which can be/ has been built independently by a few people in a short time. (and is much better). The unix they make is clearly fat like the bureaucracy it comes from. Why don't you 'all spend those 10s of millions thats going into lawyers, marketing, and executives pockets on improving the product? Then you won't need to spend 30 million to force it down our throats, it will be a viable product. The superior product will eventually prevail - but it will probably not be written in the U.S. -- were too busy trying to fill out all this damn paper work to make any decent products. -tom Founded by Revolutionaries lynch@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Destroyed by Corporate Executives