From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 5 17:09:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15487 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rainey.blueneptune.com (root@rainey.blueneptune.com [207.104.147.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA15482 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:09:07 -0700 (PDT) From: michael@blueneptune.com Received: (from michael@localhost) by rainey.blueneptune.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA27027 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:09:13 -0700 Message-Id: <199706060009.RAA27027@rainey.blueneptune.com> Subject: Re: news server source for 95/NT To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:09:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <33975D5E.2039@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at Jun 5, 97 05:44:14 pm Reply-To: michael@blueneptune.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > I'm not at all > interested in going to the old scheme of buying a C compiler and many > user licenses in addition to the OS. I guess my age is showing a bit... to me, the "old scheme" is the bygone era of purchasing Unix, and getting a bundled C compiler and full multi-user support. The skies dimmed when some companies started making the base Unix product a 1-user only system, and selling you multi-user licenses. Then came the Truly Dark Days when Sun decided to unbundle the C compiler, and make more money by selling it separately, a practice that swept through the industry like a plague. Then this upstart Microsoft came into the picture, and proved that you don't need a great product, just great marketing. Now we're hopefully in the Dawn of a New Age of computing, with a growing selection of OS's, compilers and other tools that are effectively free, in some ways like the "old days" -I- remember, only better yet in many important ways (such as Unix itself being free). [Ok, so I oversimplify more than just a tad... ;-)] -- Michael Bryan michael@blueneptune.com