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Article #1315Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest
From: Jay Maynard
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 16:02
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 16:02
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In article <TOWFIQ.90Oct2112703@lcxserver.InterLan.COM> towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM (Mark Towfiq) writes: > 2) The ksh is a miserable piece of junk, when compared to the > GNU superset shell, BASH (which supports ksh-like vi-type > editing, and built-in help, among other things). GNU is free, > with modifiable source; ksh costs $150. OK...so it's not OK to blatantly advertise commercial products, but it's OK to blatantly advertise the soi-disant Free Software Foundation's products. I get it now. GNU stuff is *not* free. It costs something other than money, though: it costs your freedom to do as you like with your code if you include even a line of their code. $150 sure sounds cheap by comparison. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "It's a hardware bug!" "It's a +--------------------------------------- software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!lib!thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest Message-ID: <4140@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 2 Oct 90 16:02:23 GMT References: <1990Sep28.205053.16456@cbnews.att.com> <TOWFIQ.90Oct2112703@lcxserver.InterLan.COM> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu