Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX International / OSF Question?
Keywords: OSF, UI, pseudo standards
Message-ID: <3865@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 17:53:02 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Sort of.  Personally, I doubt any group we could assemble would be
>large/loud enough to make a jot of difference.  As they say in Africa,
>when the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.  What we have
>to do (somehow!) is to adjust the balance of power so that the process
>becomes consumer- rather than producer- driven. This means gravitating
>away from market forces toward "purely technical" natural selectors for
>technological evolution.

This assumes that "purely technical" natural selectors will
automatically choose what all the consumers want.  The trouble is that
it's not clear that all customers want the *same* thing in all cases,
and that the folks making the "purely technical" selections happen to
agree with the consumers.  I'm extremely loath to make either of those
assumptions....