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From: geoff@desint.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Sun giving away NFS to competitors
Message-ID: <219@desint.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-May-86 03:19:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 26 03:19:36 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 27-May-86 07:19:48 EDT
References: <1017@inset.UUCP> <142@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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Keywords: NFS

In article <142@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes:

> Why help your rivals improve their product with
> something you have invested money and effort developing?

Because Sun is smart enough to realize that what helps the computer industry,
helps Sun.  It's called "promoting a standard".  If NFS takes off big, *many*
more computers will be sold.  Lots of those will be Suns.

Besides, it's awfully hard to come up with a "smaller, faster, cheaper"
workstation when you are competing with a designer as good as Bechtolsheim.
(Sorry, Andy, if I blew the spelling.)
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	Geoff Kuenning
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