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|    David Wade to Chris Townley    |
|    Re: VMS previous DEC/CPQ/HP[E] decisions    |
|    13 Oct 25 12:41:58    |
      From: dave@g4ugm.invalid              On 13/10/2025 11:57, Chris Townley wrote:       > On 13/10/2025 02:07, Arne Vajhøj wrote:       >       >>       >> Seeing a good long term business for selling proprietary Unix       >> for x86-64 require a very good imagination.       >>       >       >> Arne       >       > Red Hat do well out of it, although not quite propriety, not quite open       > source...       >       >       RedHat have worked hard to make it impossible to use their Linux without       paying. In addition they do well because in order to comply with many       security policies you need supported software.              So unless you are the French Gendarmerie, who have their own Linux       Distro, you need to pay RedHat for support. Its not cheap              Dave              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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