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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:17:24 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- References: <1h7tsjINNc62@chnews.intel.com> <1992Dec22.235412.25470@cs.uwp.edu> <1haon0INNfdh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1haon0INNfdh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne) writes:
- >>Perhaps the best part of the early days of UNIX was that you got the
- >>source code, and could fix it so it would do what you wanted. I guess
- >>the days of the shade tree UNIX hacker are truely over.
-
- That's probably for the better. It's that sort of
- willy-nilly development that kept UNIX products unstable
- (and bloating) and let abhorrent but unchanging crap like
- DOS capture a hundred million customers.
-
- Then again, there's still GNU (and the Lions book :-)).
-
- > The USL package includes the source code.
- > For an extra $3K.
-
- A screaming deal. Your "development platform" costs more,
- and isn't nearly as useful.
-
- USL for PCs should cost exactly what Windows-NT is
- introduced at. Add another $100 for online documentation
- (like your PC has that kind of disk space; make it
- $200-$300 if you want it on CD-ROM with a whizzy graphical
- browser) and a couple grand for the sources, if you think
- that's wise.
-
- --Blair
- "Just try to get the formula for Coke."
-