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From: Allen B
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:41

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In article <1992Nov8.210118.12604@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)  
writes:
> 	A final word about piracy--If piracy is a legitimate
> 	fear, then the single most dangerous platform would be
> 	the PC.  I _have_ seen BBS's with copies of various
> 	UNIX clones (>40megs compressed) online.  PC pirates
> 	get together regularly to swap software, normally
> 	bringing their machines (or  copies on tape backup).  

Uh, not all of them are illegitimate.  Our favorite site
nova, for instance, has a (currently :-) ) legit UN*X for
486 machines.  I won't deny that piracy is immense in the
PClone market, but with free BSD stuff, I doubt UNIX is a
big part of it.

I do think that NeXTstep '486 will be widely stolen,
however.  The price is too high for the street level users I
know.  They're into PClones because they're cheap- even
more so than I'm into the Amiga for that reason.

And as a long time NeXT and Amiga user, I'd love to have
NeXTstep on my '040 Amiga at home.

ab

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