From: ins559n@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) Subject: Commercial linux? Commercial lemurs. frink! Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 01:38:29 GMT
Commercial Linux is a contradiction in terms and should stay that way.
If Linux went commercial, what would be the carrot and the stick that would
induce people to buy it? Perhaps a 'shareware' version would be distributed
sans C compiler, akin to Univel UnixWare (TM).
As for running commercial software, the Xenix(TM) emulator should allow these
packages to run. The business community won't accept Linux as it is, as the
idea of distributing software for free is a subversive Commie idea and
threatens their profit margins, so don't expect Linux WordPerfect. However, we
shouldn't sell our souls for commercial software.
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