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(ASCEND) Land of the Freeware
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> From: Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:44:27 -0800
> Subject: Re: (ASCEND) In Defense Of Ascend...
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> At 12:29 PM 3/22/98 -0800, nicole@webweaver.net wrote:
> >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.
>
> Trend? I've been working with Unix for nearly 15 years and I've only seen
> slight glimpses of commercial application support for freeware OS's in the
> last two years.
>
> Freeware unix runs freeware apps. Commercial application vendors have
> always selected the commercial OS's.
And Ascend adheres to that philosophy for tradition? Is there any inherent
reason that other companies shouldn't follow the lead of Netscape, QualComm,
etc. and support free OS platforms too?
When I find bugs in Linux, I can get ahold of the developers and see the
problem fixed in days. Try doing that with Solaris. Or Ascend products,
for that matter.
Mike Berger
Shouting Ground Technologies, Inc.
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