Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!reggie
From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Open Software Foundation
Keywords: osf
Message-ID: <3250@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 23:55:17 GMT
References: <5412@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3166@pdn.UUCP> <3c2a41f6.13422@apollo.uucp>
Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation,   Largo FL
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In article <3c2a41f6.13422@apollo.uucp> mishkin@apollo.UUCP (Nathaniel Mishkin) writes:

>First, getting System V Release 3 (and presumably later releases)
>requires companies to sign a fairly (shall we say) "heavyweight" contract
>obliging the companies to do all sorts of things.
>is not necessary stable either (i.e. they could be different and Release
>4), thus making a company's long-term planning rather hard.  As a result,
>it's not clear that all companies could or would sign onto later System
>V releases, making the issue of unification moot.


     He has an excellent point.  In the grand tradition of overpricing the
AT&T 7300 and unbundling all the software that aught to come standard with
UNIX, eg. development tools, wwb, etc...., AT&T's methods of going to market
with their products will undermind all the technical skills of their people.

     God, I just hope this desease doesn't spread to Sun!





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