Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wotan!moxie!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Unix vendors in general/Esix Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 21:11:53 GMT References: <24566@well.sf.ca.us> <1991May7.043649.12113@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article <1991May7.043649.12113@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca> brian@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell) writes: > I surely hope that when you say "the standard set by AT&T" you mean the > various open systems consortiums to which AT&T belongs, and not AT&T > the single. Well, I would say "I mean AT&T". > My point here is that why should one company get to set the standards > by which we all live and compute by? They invented it? > LONG LIVE OPEN SYSTEMS!! Are you in marketing? -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"