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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!news-server.ncren.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!rkswamy From: rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi K. Swamy) 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: 23 Apr 1996 04:10:29 GMT Organization: Gunsmith Cats Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4lhl7l$kor@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4l6rkm$8he@uwm.edu> <4lg8sb$isk@news.missouri.edu> <4lgvr4$enc@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cc04du.unity.ncsu.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21964 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:752 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3397 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3239 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17845 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46603 In article <4lgvr4$enc@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu> wrote: >Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt (rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu) wrote: >: : But, if you ask linux-users how much they would give you for a possible >: : "Yes, you can use your old Wordx-documents", >: : maybe you get enough to afford MS costs. >: >: If the utility existed, and you charged just $1 per user, do you know how >: fast you'd make back your MS costs? :) I'd buy ten copies myself! > >Count me in for at least 2, possibly more. Count this area in for a bunch! >The LinuxExpo is held here in Raleigh (Hi guys!). Hi there yourself Frue, or Disco, or whatever. :) So are we going to lunch tomorrow? :) Seems as relevent a newsgroup as any to ask... Ravi -- Ravi K. Swamy http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/ rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu root@genom.com