Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!emcard!sdba!stan From: stan@sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Splinter Unix? Message-ID: <247@sdba.UUCP> Date: 23 May 88 19:23:53 GMT References: <556@n8emr.UUCP> <7922@brl-smoke.ARPA> <21387@labrea.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: S. D. Brown & Assoc. Atlanta, Ga Lines: 38 Posted: Mon May 23 15:23:53 1988 > In article <7922@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: > >It should be obvious what their real motives are. It must grate to > >have to pay AT&T royalties. > It must also grate to have AT&T try to dictate the exact form > of the distributed product, with all the conditions in the SysV.3 > licensing agreement. > > >We sure don't need a DIFFERENT system interface. A true UNIX clone > >would be okay (although it would lag in picking up new developments), > >except I doubt they will produce one. > The press release said that the interface will be based on AIX, which > is a port of SysV.2. IBM is already publicly committed to adding > numerous BSD extensions, and NFS, to AIX. Is there any indication that > OSF intends to write a complete, incompatible implementation? > > >I get pissed off at companies that prefer to resort to marketing and > >legal strategies rather than responding technically. If they're > >really going to develop an alternative operating system instead of > >adding value to an established standard one, it should be SIGNIFICANTLY > >BETTER than UNIX, not just a small incompatible tweak, or else they're > >wasting everyone's time. > What do you think of the Sun/AT&T decision to keep their code secret > while it's being developed? I expect that they'll produce a good > system, but others say that the way they plan to do it will give Sun an > unfair marketing advantage (several months) over their competitors > (and uneasy bedfellows). > Perhaps what they are trying to do is avoid the long drawn out disertations that keep standards comitees tied up in knots for years. Perhaps not but I like to think good things untill proven wrong. -- Stan Brown S. D. Brown & Associates 404-292-9497 gatech!sdba!stan "vi forever"