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From: sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T?
Summary: Ulterior motives
Message-ID: <685@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 15:32:25 GMT
References: <5412@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3166@pdn.UUCP> <3c3a336e.13422@apollo.uucp>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <3c3a336e.13422@apollo.uucp>, mishkin@apollo.uucp (Nathaniel Mishkin) writes:
> 
> BTW, I object to the various speculation (on the part of several people)
> on the topic of the "ulterior motives" of DEC and IBM.  (No one cares
> about Apollo's ulterior motives, I guess :-)  "They really just want
> to wreak havoc", it is said.  Aren't AT&T and Sun subject to ulterior
> motives?  "Get them hooked on a standard *we* define and that *they're*


I can't see why you have objections.  I myself am suspicious
of a company that is supposed to write a unified Unix being
headed by DEC and IBM, who would like nothing more than to
see Unix go away.  Despite what DEC and IBM execs say, I believe
that is still the case.  People's objections are understandable.

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