From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <
rutledge@cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:03:30 -0700
To:
plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Years and Years and Years of experience..
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they keep putting up with it. But by golly, freeware is untrustworthy
so they won't use it, and they begrudge me using it too.)
<snip>
I ran into this "untrustworthy/unsupported" argument in a SunOS/AIX
environment. The shop had to migrate to Solaris from SunOS (Y2K and
all) and the C compiler was an extra cost item. The SunOS compiler was
free but wasn't ANSI. I simply wanted to use GNU gcc and binutils, but
the sysadmin wouldn't allow that stuff on his systems.
Anyway, after hearing about the bad, bad freeware, I pointed out that we
were in real trouble - we would have to get rid of DNS (bind), sendmail,
X11, the NCSA web server, ...
The response from the sysadmin was "Is that stuff really freeware?"
-Doug