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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
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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)

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