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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: OT: non-Unix history (Was: FreeBSD vs linux)
To: timcm@umich.edu (Tim McMillen)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:39:32 -0500 (EST)
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> Right now it's far from trivial to even write an app that works on all 
> of the Linux distributions.  Then look at the fact that you have to 
> have another one for each of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, IRIX, HP-UX, SCO, etc to 
> even have support for most of the Unix platforms.  That, unfortunately 
> makes it economically sensible to develop for Windows, becuase it give 
> you access to a bigger market with less expense, even though the 
> platform is technically inferior to pretty much any Unix.

So, by not running Red Hat Linux, you are part of the problem.
You are unintentionally supporting the Windows monopoly.

:-)

Oh wait, there's some truth to that...


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