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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: You get what you pay for (was: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel)
Message-ID: <1210038@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 90 16:53:41 GMT
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> Without a doubt the three most significant advances in software in the
> past century have been Unix, X, and TCP/IP (the latter two attributable,
> in part, to Unix). 

"Without a doubt"? "Without a doubt"? No doubt at all? Not even a doubt
created by the fact that Unix systems probably make up less than a tenth
of all computers ever sold? Doesn't FORTRAN even get an honorable mention?

> Each of those systems was available in source form at little or no cost.

Well, I don't know what the original Unix licensing fees were, but a normal
person can hardly get Unix source these days for "little or no cost".

			-- Chan