From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs
Date: 2000/02/11
Date: 2000-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000Feb11.160647.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7oZo4.240$Cx.183@newsfeed.slurp.net
In article <7oZo4.240$Cx.183@newsfeed.slurp.net>, cts@kampong.aedinc.net (Craig Spannring) writes:
> Example-
> A development group I worked with wanted to run some sort of Unix
> on their PCs. The person assigned to look into it recommended
> FreeBSD. The idea was shot down by management because you couldn't
> pay money to get FreeBSD. The group ended up going with Linux
> because you actually could give somebody money to get a copy of
> Linux.
To refute this, I just pulled up http://www.cdrom.com/ , and in the
ephemeral World Wide Web today, from my machine, FreeBSD is shown
at the top of their "best sellers" box (followed by two Linux variants).
I have no way to verify that it is really a best seller, but it certainly
is offered for sale on CDrom.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-22 0:00 GNAT Support Costs Robert Kirkbride
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-23 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-29 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-01-30 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Craig Spannring
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Rush Kester
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