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Re: open source. was Closed system (was: PC connection via twinax ?)


Reeve Fritchman wrote:
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> Kinda harsh!  Economics has nothing to do with this: it's marketing.  IBM
> doesn't want those old boxes revitalized; regardless of the customer's
> application development requirements, IBM wants high maintenance costs to
> force customers to move to new iBoxes (selling new boxes is IBM's business).

The above statement sounds like economics to me.  Maybe we just define
the word differently.  That's OK by me.  It's still all about the money.

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