From: papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Subject: Re: The best way to "support Linux"! Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 10:50:45 GMT
In article <6436@blue.cis.pitt.edu> field@cs.pitt.edu writes:
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>But why? Maybe I' a bit to idealistic, but a good product markets itself. (I
>think BSD is a good example of this).
And what portion of the market does BSD have compared, say, to DOS? Between
a tenth and a twentieth. And it's platform independant. We have no choice
but to share the same market space (x86) with OS/2, NT, UnixWare, DOS, Windows,
NeXTstep, Solaris, SCO etc. etc.
And if you think a good product markets itself, why didn't Unix ever take over
the PC market? There have been decent Unixes for a while, and not all of them
were that expensive.
Unix needs to be marketed to be successful just like everything else.