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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.021258.21459@amd.com>
Date: 16 Mar 91 02:12:58 GMT
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In article <24370@hydra.gatech.EDU> qseclrb@prism.gatech.EDU (BOB BAGGERMAN) writes:
|The trouble I and others have with Novell as a "standard" is that it is not
|what many consider an open standard.  It is what ever Novell comes up with.
|That means a proprietary disk format, a proprietary operating system, a
|proprietary programming API, a broken 802.3 implementation.  These things 
|become the "standard" because of the shear bulk of business that Novell does
|not necessarily because of the technical excellence of the product.  Novell

Let's replay that, but substitute Unix for Novell...

"Open" standards vs proprietary is hogwash used to justify a preference
which can not be rationally justified. Often used by people with small
market shares.

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