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From: cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: The Upgrade Process
Message-ID: <171@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 90 22:46:18 GMT
References: <1990Mar25.175141.780@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From an article by bill@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Mitchell):
>      10 hours * 3 upgrades * 1000 persons = 30,000 manhours
>      (person-hours for gender-sensitive fellow Americans)
> Anybody got a better idea about how we can save all those manyears
> we've been spending duplicating each others efforts upgrading
> manually and complaining to one another about all the upgrade problems?

Speaking as one who gave up on Minix due to its distribution mechanism
quite awhile ago, but still reads comp.os.minix out of morbid curiosity,
I have Yet Another Silly Suggestion (YASS):

"Clearly", Minix should be a subscription product, not a one-time-sale
product.  Bill is right that P-H could not only justify their ridiculous
prices but also RAKE IN EVEN MORE by selling Minix in units of, say,
3 releases.
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| Clint Jeffery, U. of Arizona Dept. of Computer Science
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