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From: mike@turing.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Rename bug?
Keywords: strange rename errno
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Date: 15 Jun 88 18:03:36 GMT
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In article <55239@sun.uucp> limes@sun.UUCP (Greg Limes) writes:

>In article <1128@mcgill-vision.UUCP> der Mouse writes:
>>... I trust one written by a company out to make money even less.
>
>Funny, I would expect exactly the reverse. If the operating system does
>not work properly, the company gets bug reports and has to fix them
>(this costs bucks), and if the bugs are bad enough, the company starts
>to lose customers to competitors who can provide better functionality.
>Thus is it in the best interests of the for-profit corporation to
>provide software that is as reliable and bug-free as possible.



OK...here's the 10,000,000 question: who competes with SUN to provide
software for SUNs?  No one.  There is, therefore, no impulse on the
part of sun to provide the best functionality.  Once someone's bought
the box, sun is a power to stick-it-to-em.  DEC has a competitor for
Ultrix, but the response has not been to improve Ultrix, it has been
to keep hardware manuals secret to UCB can't write drivers.


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