Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Little Caesar
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 16:50

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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950926174717.16026A-100000@howard>, Patrick
O'Neil <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Sep 1995 xenon@deltanet.com wrote:
> 
> > Bah. Who needs MS products on a Linux box? Doesn't that defeat the
> > purpose? I can see it now..."Get Word version 9.8 for Linux and
> > receive GNU bundled with it." No thanks. Linux users *write* apps. 
> [...]
> 
> And this is precisely why it will never be a mainstream, generally 
> accepted OS...MOST computer users do not program.  They buy their box to 
> run already created programs.  A businessperson has no time, nor any 
> desire to fight code to produce a simple business related app.

Isn't Caldera shipping a Linux-based system with Wordperfect and some
spreadsheet and a bunch of other stuff all bundled together for ~$300
(street)? I think there's even a SimCity for Linux.

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From: damir@mindspring.com (Little Caesar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:50:33 -0500
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