On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> [much penguin-branded marketing-speak snipped]
> > We cannot paint ourself into a box (e.g. choosing CP/M over MS-DOS
> > because of a few multi-processing support) when we are developing the
> > infrastructure for a major development effort.
>
> sounds like the choice has already been made to go with a free *nix,
> which is a gain for all, since none of them will paint you into a box.
> it's not like migrating and porting among the free *nixes is terribly
> painful in comparison to, say, windows and *nix.

Neither is it with any non-free *nix.
Serious, I'd much rather go with solaris than linux.


 - Hubert

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