Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Apr 21 12:41:13 2002

What it clearly says if you don't prune the context is that I'm not alone in
my observation that UNIX stuff costs 10x-100x what the comparable DOS/Windows
stuff costs. This may not be a balanced comparison, since Ben's looking at
the same sort of stuff I'm looking at much of the time, but it does suggest
that I'm not alone in my observation.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)


> On April 21, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> > > There is a demo version of nearly every high-cost ($2000 isn't that
high, btw,
> > > though the Windows environment has made it so.) Get a comparable
product for
> > > UNIX, and you'll get no improvement, nor will you get source. All
you'll get
> > > is a bigger bill.
> >
> > LINUX != UNIX. ( But you are right )
>
> What does that have to do with it?
>
> -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
> St. Petersburg, FL -Den
>
>
Received on Sun Apr 21 2002 - 12:41:13 BST