Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:43:46 -0700 From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <335B0CA2.16810B48@konnections.com> References: <199704200536.PAA02926@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Michael Smith wrote: > > I couldn't get Applix to come up with an eval version, and I had > several preople complain about its poor import/export. > > FWIW, SO runs on Solaris (sparc) as well; I don't think there's any > question of which is the "most" appropriate in this context; we should > be encouraging everyone to support the FU marketplace. > RedHat was very generous in offering an eval copy to us. They even offered the latest release. I had heard that the file format i/o was broken on earlier editions. I haven't tried it out yet, as it only arrived yesterday, but one of our contributors said it was working fine. I shouldn't have put the 'most' appropriate here. That was petty. I think most mature at this juncture is what I meant. SO and everyone else should get an equal shot... We don't want to kill off vendors (yet, anyway : -} )) -Mike
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