Re: Merced makes things interesting, eh?

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:52:35 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > around like they use to. The clients are also not as willing to pay
> > the high price for "software maintainance".
> >
> > They are moving more to selling based on hardware features and
> > less on the OS features.
>
> Not that unrealistic. Digital for example understood this way before most
> people did. You wanted an OSless Vax they sold you one. Its one of the
> reasons so many vaxen got sold

Here at the department we're telling other jokes:

Things don't change. Many years ago, we bought Digital (PDP-11?) and ran
UNIX, but had to pay for the Digital OS. Now we buy DELL and run Linux,
but have to pay for the M$ OS.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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