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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.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!news.duke.edu!usenet From: Charles Reese <reese@chem.duke.edu> 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: 24 Apr 1996 12:59:02 GMT Organization: Duke University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4ll8im$gp9@news.duke.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> <4l0fv9$1bfs@news.missouri.edu> <4l2u61$fdg@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <4l8o73$i28@news.missouri.edu> <4laudl$q55@news.duke.edu> <317CA542.F15E726@gramercy.ios.com> <4lk2p7$bc1@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: async27.async.duke.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22219 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:820 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3486 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3339 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18071 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46978 kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) wrote: >Bryan Seigneur (freds@gramercy.ios.com) wrote: >: You know of course that there is Matlab for Linux (ergo, probably for *BSD, >: too). > >Sorry, this does not follow. Just because there is a Linux version DOES >NOT mean there is a *BSD version. > >-- >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 And one other small point Linux may be free but Matlab is not. We had Matlab on our Dec Ultrix machines and it costs $1000 / year for a license (I think it was a 3 user one) where it was less then $1000 to buy it for the PC. I find that a lot of commercial apps for Unices still harve yearly license fees. Charlie Reese