From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 22 09:50:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA27537 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [207.67.176.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA27524 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by covina.lightside.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0utcx9-0006kPC; Thu, 22 Aug 96 09:49 PDT Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:49:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: Joel Ray Holveck cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www3.sco.com/Company/Announce/p081996e.htm In-Reply-To: <199608212313.TAA11524@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > >> From the last time I used SCO...why would anyone want it, when > >> there are *better* (IMHO!) Unix variants out like FreeBSD and > >> NetBSD that have always been free...? > > Well, this is nevertheless an interesting action, and perhaps the > > only right thing they can do, now being faced with MicroSnot > > everywhere... (and good-quality free Unix clones). Hey, I don't care if FreeBSD is better, if SCO is *free* for students, I'd be happy to try it out. Right now I use FreeBSD for my "serious" Internet access and development, but own a copy of Solaris/x86 (academic discount $120) because I use Solaris/SPARC at work and sometimes it's nice to have a "supported" platform for Java development, etc... SCO may be a crummy SVR3 but I want to see it myself before I write it off completely, right? If nothing else, I'll know to be thankful for what FreeBSD offers! :-) Anyway, thanks to whoever pointed out the URL... ---Jake