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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 3 Feb 1997 14:12:03 GMT
Organization: VG Gas Analysis Systems
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In article <5ct00d$kkj$2@pike.dnaco.net>, leeizzie@dnaco.net says...

>I'd be willing to wager that the most popular Unix IS Linux.  Part of this,
>I'm sure is because of the low cost of optaining a distribution.  But, I bet
>SCO hasn't seen nearly the amount of downloading for their no cost
>personal version as any one distribution of Linux.
>
>Of course it would be interesting to see the numbers comparing the
>assorted commercial distributions of Linux vs. the other commercial
>Unixen.

You may well be right.    I was thinking this morning that if somebody from the 
commercial Unix world sponsered the Unix-certification of *BSD versions and 
Linux, plus nowadays I suppose GNU/Hurd, and could then call them Unix, this 
would make an enormous difference to the claims it's possible to make in the 
NT-versus-Unix market-share argument.

-- 
James Youngman       VG Gas Analysis Systems |The trouble with the rat-race 
 Before sending advertising material, read   |is, even if you win, you're 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html|still a rat.