Hi, pls help to understand this sentense !

Philipp Thomas kthomas@linux01.gwdg.de
Tue Aug 31 22:45:00 GMT 1999


On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:07:26 +0200 (MET DST), Gerald Pfeifer
<pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

>Unfortunately Sun, in it's infinite wisdom, chose to omit a C compiler
>from Solaris

I do remember the argument when that was done: "Why let all customers pay
for something only few will use". 

I then and still now doubt the validity of that statement though.




Philipp

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