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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!leonard.anu.edu.au!not-for-mail From: gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 18 Apr 1996 12:01:29 +1000 Organization: Australian National University Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4l47pp$n93@leonard.anu.edu.au> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <Dpz1qL.n1G@deere.com> <NELSON.96Apr17100405@ns.crynwr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.2.15 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #12 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17307 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45376 [NB: Newsgroups line trimmed heavily.] nelson@ns.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes: >In article <Dpz1qL.n1G@deere.com> Con Sultant <jkane@execpc.com> writes: >> nelson@ns.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) wrote: >> >If they could buy a computer with Linux and (a fully functional) Wine >> >installed, they would use it with no hesitation. >> >> I am about to get my a** flamed for stepping in where Phoenix's dare >> tread, But you have just tripped my trigger!! >> >> IBM Think blue for a moment! If you think for a moment ANY Free UNIX >> could just add a Windows emulator and make a go of it on that fact, think >> again. IBM tried it in OS/2. >Yup, you should get your ass flamed. You don't understand the >channel. Competition is VERY fierce there. As soon as someone can >ship a ROYALTY-FREE OS which can run Windows, they will. And they'll >kick everyone else's butt because they can sell their systems for at >least $50 cheaper than everyone else. Hrrm. Dunno about that. I bet that *if* something came along that was *really* competive with Win95, ran *all* Win binaries *flawlessly* and was free (those are some big "if"s) then Micro$oft would have no problem (financially, that is) giving away Win95 for free, and making money on all the other software packages. I'm sure the marketing droids at Micro$loth learned something from the beating that NetScape Communications delivered to them in the www arena. Paul.