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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: ADB
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Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 22:55:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 22:55:00 1986
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>/* Written  4:49 am  Mar  6, 1986 by philip@axis.UUCP in ccvaxa:net.unix-wizards */
>The real answer is to *NEVER* buy anything in binary form. UNIX works
>in the way it does simply because when things don't work it is possible
>to fix it (correctly). If you *must* buy binaries, then do so from
>someone you can physically get hold of when they don't work.

*NEVER* can be a long time. If we were only going to buy source code,
then several of the small companies I've worked for could *NEVER* have
afforded UNIX - nor any other operating system.

(Thank God I now work somewhere where we originate code and computer systems)

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana. 
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