Re: SCO market share

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From: Rick Kelly
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1993 19:59

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Jurgen Botz (jbotz@mtholyoke.edu) wrote:

: 2) The very fact that the OS is free improves the quality of support,
: as the professional support people can draw upon the collective wisdom
: of the community (and do).  When source is publicly available more bugs
: are found and squashed, more bad design decissions are criticized early
: on in the process, etc., etc.

This, of course, assumes a connection to USENET and/or the Internet, which
is not free.

-- 

Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  rmk@bedford.progress.com

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Subject: Re: SCO market share
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