From: esav@albatross.no (Esa K Viitala) Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real choice? Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 13:14:50 GMT
In article <C8FA17.HIG@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
> Secondly, application software for unix, be it SCO or SVr4 is generally
> more expensive (sometimes much more expensive) than similar applications for
> Windows. I do not know why - perhaps they assume that unix people can afford
> to pay more, but I think that the main reason is that the development costs can
> be amortized over a much larger volume of sales.
Or maybe because of multiuser Unix systems vs. single user DOS/Windows programs.
---ekv
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