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- From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: POSIX threatens our use of lp/lpr and friends
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:12:18 GMT
- Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <1jmb02INNh7n@sol.tis.com>
- References: <C15sst.JqA@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1993Jan20.194433.8635@coe.montana.edu>
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- [note newsgroups line re-edit]
-
- >Can somebody please explain why palladium is a bad system?
-
- It doesn't seem to actually exist. I.e.: Who is selling it
- right now? And you did notice the magic word "sell" in the previous
- sentence? That means that either you'll pay for it even if you do
- not want it, or you'll have it "unbundled" and you'll pay for some
- of it even if you do not want it, and the old BSD stuff will still
- be with your system, but the vendors will sneer at problem complaints
- and bugfixes for it.
- Just say "no" to standardizing on vaporware. If it's real
- good, once it's been out for a few years, everyone will want and
- demand it and then it'll be worth standardizing on.
-
- mjr.
- --
- "guns don't die. people do."
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