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- Path: sparky!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
- Message-ID: <1475@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 07:24:49 GMT
- References: <2B360E6C.369@news.service.uci.edu>
- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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- In an article, mwu@orion.oac.uci.edu (Matt Wu) writes:
- >I just heard that Novell bought USL. What does this mean?
-
- It means that UNIX may survive this Windows NT mess. What UNIX needs,
- and has been significantly lacking in, is a proactive marketing machine
- that will give those users a warm, fuzzy feeling. If anyone stands a
- chance of giving Microsoft a (well deserved) kick in the pants, it's
- Novell.
-
- I wonder if we'll hear from any purists who'll moan that it's a sell-out,
- and all that ever needed to *really* be done was re-release the V7 kernel
- with the sales pitch "Think Small"? :-)
-
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