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(a)neurotica.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)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
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 Dave McGuire                                 "Mmmm.  Big."
 St. Petersburg, FL                                -Den