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Re: (ASCEND) In Defense Of Ascend...
> At 06:18 PM 3/20/98 -0600, Brett Hawn wrote:
> >I suppose I'm probably picking nits here but I think its worth it to note
> >that BSD OS 3.0 != FreeBSD and generally precompiled binaries for one will
> >not run on the other. Saying you support BSD doesn't mean squat I'm sorry to
> >tell you. In this case you were rather specific in stating that you
> >supported BSD OS but that leaves FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD (the last two
> >also have variants for different architecures).
>
> Not to mention Linux! There are too many Unix's for most commercial vendors
> to support. Especially those vendors who don't focus on server software. If
> we were giving away source code it would be no problem. But we spent a lot
> of valuable engineering time developing this code and we aren't going to
> give it away. And since engineering time is so valuable, we simply can't
> support every unix out there.
>
I belive that it is rather obvious to note that they support all the $$$$ platforms but none of the excelent Gnu and Freeware around! A horible trend that I am seeing more and more.
Nicole
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