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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: The Real reasons the *BSDs should cooperate, if not merge. Message-ID: <CyF7HK.5BF@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: Internet Direct, indirect.com Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 06:03:19 GMT References: <38pb93$ls9@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <38s02r$gp7@nntp1.u.washington.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 26 Jon Cargille <jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > Up until now, the fact that there is more than one free version of BSD > for the i386 has been at most an inconvenience: [...] > Inconvenience aside, however, the split hasn't been a REAL problem for > many people. In the future, though, I see it becoming a true Achilles > heel for the user community. Mark Tamola (buckwild@u.washington.edu) wrote: : I have to agree with this. While I don't disagree, I think you've missed the fact that BSDI is most likely to garner commercial support, simply because it is a supported product. This doesn't bother me much, I haven't seen all that much commercial software I'd want to pay money for; certainly not the Wordperfect or Excel mentioned in the above articles... Using a "free" system is pretty much a high-wire act, just like the good old days of UNIX. Being a curmudgeon-in-training, I like the good old days, when there were a few UNIX people around and we knew how good we had it, much better than today when everyone and his dog is talking about how good UNIX is, if it only had feature "X" from DOS/VMS/VM/etc. Wes Peters