| From: | "Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA> |
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| Subject: | Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question) |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 12:33:29 -0400 |
>> ease of use. And it was free. I'm sure there were attempts to
>> develop something else, but those attempts quickly died at the hands
>> of this free OS that everyone was using. Why buy something, when what
>> you can get for free works? This model grew in popularity until even
>
>I think this statement needs an analogy.
>
>Compare Windows 95 to Linux with X-Windows. =)
The main reason that Windows 95 is so popular today is that it's
compatible (more or less) with Windows 3.1 which was compatible with
Windows 3.0, which was compatible with DOS 3.3. Is that what you
meant?
After the Crash, you don't have to worry about backwards compatibility
anymore.
The most recent version (X11R6.4) of X-Windows is only free for
non-commercial purposes, too...
James Ojaste
