> > effort which I wholeheartedly support. Besides, how can a commercial
> > product compete with linux?
>
> Mark William's Coherent, a entry level UNIX-like OS was more or less
> blown out of the market by Linux. Do you still believe that Linux can
> not compete with a commercial product?
>
> Ralf
>
Mark Williams' COHERENT had an install base of a couple thousand.
It was basically a featureless, very poor replica of SVR2.
I don't think its fair to blame Linux for its demise. Its was
just one of those unfortunate things.
I've also CC'd the solaris-source@vger list with this message. I
hope nobody minds ;)
Richard G. Roberto
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