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Linux recycled Unix ?
- From: Malcolm Herbert <mherbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:33:59 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <01020822271302.01036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
hi
any comments on this quote today ?
> Customers, he said, misunderstood what Linux was, thinking that it
> was brand new technology rather than just recycled Unix. "We're not
> changing the rules of physics in the universe here" and that the
> best Linux can offer is "better technology for the same money."
> There is, he said, "a wake-up call" sounding "for many.
Malcolm
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Dr Malcolm Herbert
Director, Academic Business Development
Red Hat Europe
t: +44 1483 734955 m: +44 7720 079845
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"To err is human, but to really foul
things up you need a computer"
Farmers Weekly, 1977
any comments on this quote today ?
> Customers, he said, misunderstood what Linux was, thinking that it
> was brand new technology rather than just recycled Unix. "We're not
> changing the rules of physics in the universe here" and that the
> best Linux can offer is "better technology for the same money."
> There is, he said, "a wake-up call" sounding "for many.
Malcolm
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Dr Malcolm Herbert
Director, Academic Business Development
Red Hat Europe
t: +44 1483 734955 m: +44 7720 079845
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"To err is human, but to really foul
things up you need a computer"
Farmers Weekly, 1977
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