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- From: aad@siemens.com. (Anthony Datri)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x)
- Message-ID: <111840@siemens.siemens.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:52:09 GMT
- References: <BEAULIEU.92Dec16084643@piranha.bose.com> <1992Dec16.185356.17158@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec19.170637.668@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
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- Organization: Siemens Corp. Res., Inc.
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- >even split. In a more detailed followup question, the people who used OW
- >were those who (a) had to because of the application needs (ie, had
- >3rd party or Sun S/W which required OW)
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- How many of these misunderstood the question and mistook XView for OW? I've
- found that most of the third-party vendors that use the former think it's the
- latter.
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- >On the topic of unbundled software, a large percentage of the audience
- >would prefer that OW became unbundled separately-priced software, so
- >they could save some money.
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- I'd prefer that Sun applied its argument about the C compiler to OW, keeping
- OW and giving me a compiler.
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