In article <Mar.11.22.06.14.1992.16661@dartagnan.rutgers.edu> hedrick@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
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>>              Linus "eggface" Torvalds
>
>I trust you're not serious about this.  I was a user of a commercial
>port of System V for the AT done by Microport, a company set up by ATT
>and Intel to support System V on the Intel architecture.  They spent
              ^^^^^^^
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>years and still couldn't get it right.  Supporting every clone known
>to man is not an easy job.  You're doing amazingly well.

I wouldn't call what they do 'support'.  I almost got suckered into buying a
Microport-marked SysV until I was informed that their 'upgrade' policy consisted
of removing all copies of the software and mailing back the original disks, then
paying 70% of the retail cost of the new version.  An you had to include a
letter saying that you really removed it, so your machine would be down for the
weeks it takes for a two-way UPS shipment.

At any rate, I second the kudos to Linus.  I don't run Linux right now, for
lack of time, but I have in the past (0.11).  Thanks Linus.

-Dave

PS: No flames if this isn't the true uPort upgrade policy.  But a friend of
mine told me this one day, and he looked pissed enough that I beleived him.

-Dave
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