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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!asd.com!scott
- From: scott@asd.com (Scott Barman)
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.235615.1427@asd.com>
- Organization: American Software Development Corp., West Babylon, NY
- References: <1992Dec29.023817.18087@asd.com> <kbibb.725606456@maui> <1992Dec29.201610.522@asd.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:56:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.201610.522@asd.com> scott@asd.com (Scott Barman) writes:
- >In article <kbibb.725606456@maui> kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb) writes:
- >>You mean a free GNU compiler will break your budget?
- >
- >Yes! That "free" GNU compiler has to get here some how. We are uucp
- >only, we cannot wait to get it via ftpmail if we upgrade. We're a small
- >shop and cannot have that much in down time while we deal with the
- >restrictions of this service (NOTE: I am *not* flaming the ftpmail
- >service; on the contrary, I praise it! But it would pose a real problem
- >using it in this scenario). We cannot afford the 1-900- costs that we
- >would be charged to get it from UUNET and we cannot afford the hundreds
- >of dollars to order a tape from a company or even the FSF. Economic
- >times are tough, in case you haven't noticed, and we are trying to
- >survive on Long Island, which has been among the hardest hit areas of
- >the region.
-
- Wow... news travels fast! I wrote this at around 2:30pm and by 6pm
- I received seven responses. Thank you to everyone who has pointed
- out to me that SunSoft is putting the GNU C compiler on their CDWare
- disk. I know this was discussed previously in comp.unix.solaris, I
- just forgot about it.
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- scott barman | <This space intentionally left blank>
- scott@asd.com |
- (I can barely speak for myself, you expect me to speak for my employer??)
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