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From: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Open Software Foundation
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Date: 30 May 88 02:50:38 GMT
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In article <54822@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
In article <14976@brl-adm.arpa> Root Boy Jim writes:
>> 
>>> 	God, I just hope this desease doesn't spread to Sun!
>> 
>> Perhaps it has. Pascal and Fortran have been unbundled, but that's okay,
>> as nobody uses them anyway :-)
>
>Note: the unbundling of Pascal and FORTRAN was in no way prompted by any action
>on the part of AT&T.  AT&T doesn't run Sun, or dictate its software marketing
>policies (except to the extent that their licenses do so).  We have no
>expectation that they will do so in the future.
>

Yet, this "unbundling" of UNIX software did start with ATT. Why has Sun 
continued it? I sure would like to see anything sold as UNIX by any vendor be 
compatible with the V7 manuals AT THE USERS COMMAND LEVEL. (I.E.  chapter 1)

Such a dreamer am I.


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