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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!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 14:33:37 GMT Organization: Gunsmith Cats Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4lipo1$2ss@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4lgvr4$enc@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4lhl7l$kor@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4lhpdv$k5h@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: c00390-346dan.eos.ncsu.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22216 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:817 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3483 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3336 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18068 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46975 In article <4lhpdv$k5h@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu> wrote: >Ravi K. Swamy (rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu) wrote: >: In article <4lgvr4$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! But I thought vi was the only sysadm tool you need! >I'll be online. (gotta go, Phil broke out the screwdriver near my >computer, I'm just about panicy!) *Which* computer? :) Ravi -- Ravi K. Swamy http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/ rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu root@genom.com