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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs
Date: 2000/02/11
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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.