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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:07:21 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <4jv7c9$m5t@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <stephenkDp5xr1.69v@netcom.com> <4joi3n$bvb@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <stephenkDp7nHo.369@netcom.com>
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Not that this little side-discussion has anything to do with the
subject line...
stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) wrote:
] In article <4joi3n$bvb@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE (Thomas Weihrich) writes:
] >You still don't get it ...
] >
] >Linux is by no means a commercially usable product. It has too many
] >flaws to be of good use for businesses let alone ISPs.
]
] Name ****ONE****! So far, I haven't heard ONE legitimate reason! BTW I have heard
] of at least THREE ISPs that use LINUX, and some BIG companies have decided to
] support LINUX! LINUX supports more, is more flexible, and faster in areas, etc...
] than SCO!!!!!!!!! I use SCO at work, and Linux at home!
Running binaries under IBCS2 emulation instead of running them
native means no support from the software vendors when the
programs fail to run under Linux.
Same is true of BSD, for what it's worth.
The name of the game is native binaries.
That's why Matorx doesn't think Linux (or BSD) is enough of a
market to care to change their policy (a policy which does not,
as they purported in David's quotation of them, protect their IP).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.