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Subject: Re: Why there is no commercial programs for Linux ?

Author: Angrim

Date: 13:46:46 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 16:37:47, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 08, 2002 at 16:27:28, Ricardo R Santana wrote:
>
>>DOes anyone knows the answer for this question ??
>
>The answer to the question is "False."
>
>There are many commercial programs for Linux.  Apparently, you haven't looked
>very hard.
>
>Have you noticed the interest IBM has taken in Linux?  You can get DB/2 for
>Linux.
>
>Borland, Fujitsu and Intel make commercial compilers for Linux.
>
>Several commercial packages here:
>http://linas.org/linux/
>
>The company I work for sells commercial Linux products.

I would expect that he meant "why are there no commercial CHESS programs for
linux"
I would guess that the competition from crafty is just too much.
This is less of a problem in windows, because the people who use
windows tend to believe that anything free is junk.

Angrim



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