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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:39:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
To:        timcm@umich.edu (Tim McMillen)
Cc:        roelof@nisser.com (Roelof Osinga), mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer), acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan), questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OT: non-Unix history (Was: FreeBSD vs linux)
Message-ID:  <200101250039.f0P0dXG169385@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01012419080209.24525@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> from "Tim McMillen" at Jan 24, 2001 07:08:02 PM

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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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