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Re: USENIX Association Upcoming Events (fwd)



On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:

>I agree. Linux is not something you charge money for, excepting the media
>price and packing etc. The concept of 'free operating system' with sources
So RedHat and Caldera are chaging from $50 to $200 for carton boxes???
>in the PD is understood very little by most players. The paradigm suits
>those best, who do not make OSes, but software and hardware.
That's exaclty my point. If you make hardware that can run with a number
of OSes, there is no reason to refuse some... Unless you are paid
**really** big bucks just for refusal. And that would be criminal.

>Often with Novell on it. Who owns Novell now, and who is going to own it
>soon ? Did their shares jump too ?
Well, as far as I feel, Novell as server platform will be crushed by NT
very soon...
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