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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:52:16 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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fastbit@earthlink.net wrote:

> Regarding the OS: the 6.2 IRIX is much, much better than 5.3 in terms of
> stability and performance especially when you use XFS file systems.  No,
> you can't get the source code for it.  SGI is a for-profit company, not
> a university or research organization that gives away free source code. 
> Can you name any for-profit company that does ?

BSDi.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j