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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5049 comp.os.linux.misc:33962 comp.os.os2.advocacy:75850 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!yallara!s9406182 From: s9406182@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (A Shelton) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld Date: 25 Jan 1995 13:15:05 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3g5isp$58g@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> References: <3fo52q$lvp@manuel.anu.edu.au> <3g493bINN7h3@myall.awadi.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au NNTP-Posting-User: s9406182 maddinal@awadi.com.au (Mark Addinall) writes: >hmmmm, in a previous life, a company i worked for had 4 SCO servers in oz >and a SCO server in the us and the only time we brought them dowm was to >install new product.... I've used SCO, and the most noticeable thing about it was it's lack of personality and allowance for experimentation. Not that it could compete with anything that offers source code. I have no problem with people who choose not to use linux in a commercial environment, there are many arguments for and against that they have to judge and be responsible for. However, I don't understand why this should be seen as a crisis for linux. SCO's strength is in it's commercial support, linux in the diversity and energy of it's growth. It's not like any of the big commercial supporters would offer to make the linux kernel better. Conversely, anything the big boys can do linux can either emulate or surpass (borrowing sco binaries being a good example, likewise for dosemu and wine) in time. >linux is cool :-) and SCO is not (which does not impune it's reliability) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andrew Shelton (Dreamyr) s9406182@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au This Product 100% Linux Compatible. GCS(2.1)-d+H+sw+v-C++UL+>L+++E-N++WV--R++tv-b+D++e+fr*y?