Path: utzoo!censor!geac!yunexus!davecb
From: davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX International / OSF Question?
Keywords: OSF, UI, pseudo standards
Message-ID: <13394@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 2 Aug 90 15:10:18 GMT
References: <776@tfsg.UUCP>
Organization: York U. Computing Services
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otts@tfsg.UUCP (Chuck Otts) writes:
>We here at TRW are awaiting, like most the world, some type of movement
>from one or both organizations (growth of SVR4, status of OSF/1, etc.)
>so a choice can be made (direction in the 90's).  Not sure if a
>membership list is useful but figured it couldn't hurt.

  If you are waiting, you've already done what at least one vendor
wants.  It's true that they're a member of OSF, but I suspect they
have colleagues who are part of UI.

  Be warned: the dichotomy is deliberate, and is strongly approved
of by marketers of proprietary software who are overreacting to the
spectre of someone else's operating system running on their precious
hardware (:-)).
  You can 
	1) pick and chose technology on its own merits, and know that
	   vendors will be forced to support it if really is worthwhile
	   (ie, the normal pre-war assumption)
	2) apply political/purchasing pressure on the two antagonists
	   to force them into bed together.

  This is not a discussion of standards: its a discussion about
market power.

--dave
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