16 Mar
2017
16 Mar
'17
9:42 p.m.
On 3/15/17 4:27 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 03:45:24PM -0400, Clem Cole
wrote:
This is the same access vs. affordability argument we're seeing played out
in other segments of US society.
I have access to a Porsche, as do thousands of others (some of whom choose
not to buy one), but I can't afford one.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
SVR4 (aka UnixWare) was available for source -
the problem is many people
did like the price to see it. It was $100K. But the source was available
it was open and many, many of people with PC and had access to it, wrote
drivers for it etc.
That's a pretty peculiar definition of open. Which is fine, I guess,
but you need to realize that that's open much like a high end country
club is open. It's open to the rich people, to the connected people,
everyone else is left out in the cold.