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- From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
- Message-ID: <Bzq72F.7Dr@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <BzpuFq.2G1@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil> <X3R9VB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> <1992Dec23.170951.28195@xenitec.on.ca> <1992Dec23.181156.16486@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:51:50 GMT
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- messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
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- >merce@xenitec.on.ca (Jim Mercer) writes:
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- >>In article <X3R9VB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky) writes:
- >>>While I agree with much of what you have said here, it reminds me
- >>>of what seems to a problem unique to the Internet. I suppose I
- >>>shouldn't be surprised given that the place is still largely populated
- >>>with technical types but the "Micro$oft bad, Bill Gates evil, Bill Gates
- >>>badbadbad, NT sucks" stuff amazes me.
- >>
- >>geez, people who care about the quality and ethics of those in their industry.
- >>[...]
- >>maybe if we all acted irresponsibly, and basically screwed whoever we need
- >>to to make huge amounts of money, this industry would be a better place.
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- >Just to interject some sanity here - when was the last time you checked
- >prices for UNIX software? Why don't you do that before talking about
- >making huge amounts of money. This is the problem - UNIX will never
- >make it to Joe Blow's desktop as long as the prices are that obscene.
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- The problem is not the price of UNIX software -- it is the limited
- market for UNIX software. If there was a much larger market
- for it, it could be made much cheaper. I'm sure the software
- developers would be happy to charge 1/100 the price per
- copy, if they could sell 1,000,000 times as many copies.
-
- However, making UNIX software cheap will not make UNIX a mass-marketing
- success. There are some fundamental changes that have to be made
- before UNIX can make it as an operating system for a "toaster".
- Like, you shouldn't need a degree in Comp Sci. in order to
- install it :)
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- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
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- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
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