Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 06:32:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux markets (Was: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10107010629080.20337-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <3B3E6941.C822FFB3@Silver-Lynx.com>
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Don Wilde wrote: :Mike Meyer wrote: :> :> Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> types: : :> > The reality is that the Linux/BSD/BEos/XXX market IS tiny :> > except for those outside the "West", and they don't pay cash. :> :> "Tiny" doesn't mean "worthless". Adobe is still developing and :> maintaining Frame for Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, at least on non-intel :> hardware. The the Windows and MacIntosh versions may be required to :> make the Unix version pay for itself. :> :Granted, but Solaris and HP-UX and AIX users are used to paying for s/w, :and have been brainwashed into believing that payware is going to be :better than freeware. As have their bosses who approve the invoices. You come off like you have an axe to grind. Put it down, breathe, relax, and think. Commercial software does not automaticly equal bad software anymore than Open Source automaticly equals good software. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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