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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Un*X cost
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In article <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk>, richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

>With luck, within a year or so, they may be two industrial-strength
>free Unixes available - GNU, from the Free Software Foundation, and
>4.4-detox (ie BSD "detoxified" - with the AT&T code removed).

But who will provide support for GNU & the 4.4? Will there be independent
consulting firms started up which charge $$$$/hour for support of these OSes?

I know it will make the hackers happy, but for those poor folks (such as
myself) who prefer not to go recompile the OS, it isn't going to make much
difference....they'll still end up purchasing products with a "supported"
UNIX bundled in.