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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!bert.ga.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!crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu!not-for-mail From: kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) 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) Followup-To: 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 Date: 23 Apr 1996 05:22:07 GMT Organization: The House of RetroComputing Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4lhpdv$k5h@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4l6rkm$8he@uwm.edu> <4lg8sb$isk@news.missouri.edu> <4lgvr4$enc@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4lhl7l$kor@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21968 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:755 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3400 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3242 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17848 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46606 Ravi K. Swamy (rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu) wrote: : 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... : Only if you promise to help me write sysadm tools over the summer! I'll be online. (gotta go, Phil broke out the screwdriver near my computer, I'm just about panicy!) -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@interpath.com XCOMM Frue, Secret Agent of Smerp (shh!) \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of RetroComputing at / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com