Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T? Message-ID: <7943@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 10 Jun 88 00:57:06 GMT References: <24369@pyramid.pyramid.com> <10978@steinmetz.ge.com> <14181@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <5085@nsc.nsc.com> <11006@steinmetz.ge.com> <503@bacchus.DEC.COM> <7986@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3c67f93d.ddc1@apollo.uucp> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T? Message-ID: <7943@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 10 Jun 88 00:57:06 GMT References: <24369@pyramid.pyramid.com> <10978@steinmetz.ge.com> <14181@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <5085@nsc.nsc.com> <11006@steinmetz.ge.com> <503@bacchus.DEC.COM> <7986@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3c67f93d.ddc1@apollo.uucp> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Lines: 16 As quoted from <3c67f93d.ddc1@apollo.uucp> by perry@apollo.uucp (Jim Perry): +--------------- | Bell Labs was not in the commercial computer business and therefore made | it widely available, and many people implemented it on a variety of hardware. | Now AT&T (along with Sun) is in the position of developing it in the character | of a product rather than a research item. The argument goes that if AT&T+Sun +--------------- Bogus argument. AT&T has been developing Unix as a commercial product since 1984 at least, quite successfully, and doing all those evil things you mentioned with it. Sun has been doing so for at least that long as well. Why, then, did it take 4 years for the OSF to be founded? -- Brandon S. Allbery | "Given its constituency, the only uunet!marque,sun!mandrill}!ncoast!allbery | thing I expect to be "open" about Delphi: ALLBERY MCI Mail: BALLBERY | [the Open Software Foundation] is comp.sources.misc: ncoast!sources-misc | its mouth." --John Gilmore