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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.reference.com!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!win126.nas.nasa.gov!newhouse From: newhouse@win126.nas.nasa.gov (Paul M. Newhouse) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,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: 15 Apr 1996 07:44:44 GMT Organization: NAS Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ksupc$a1j@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <tporczykDpqKHL.7vG@netcom.com> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: win126.nas.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21442 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:607 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3219 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3036 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17409 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45638 >As I said originally, the only thing that can sell UNIX to desktops >(besides specialized uses) is applications - common productivity >applications, priced *reasonably*. I agree. We need to see a good spreedsheet and a good WYSIWIG document processor at resonable prices in order to really expand the Free/Net BSD, Linux demand in the desktop arena. THe OS's are fun to play with and for certain applications they are first choice (i.e. - networking situations). But, these are limited/niche markets for the most part. >Superiority or inferiority of OS is irrelevant. Pretty broad casting of the net! I have an OS that runs every application in the universe. Admittedly it's rather inferior (since it won't even boot) BUT, since that's irrelevant I sure it will displace all other OS's in the market place!!!! *8^) pimin