Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:52:35 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Merced makes things interesting, eh? |
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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
-- 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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