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From: warwick@cs.uq.edu.au (Warwick Allison)
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: 17 Apr 1996 06:14:18 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Queensland
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somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu (William R. Somsky) writes:
>Free Unices can survive and succeed perfectly well in the niche market of
>those of us who want a _UNIX_ without a lot of excess fluff and baggage
>purely for the sake of trying to win over windows users...
Don't worry about it. The people who huff and puff about `winning the
desktop', and similar Windoze-chasing are the types that don't do anything
about it anyway. That's the beauty of what is happenning with free Unix -
there is no danger that some well-written Grand Plan comes along and stuffs
the whole thing up. If we the users/developers like soemthing, we will
use it and improve it in the directions we want it to go.
--
Warwick
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