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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: <7947@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 88 03:56:16 GMT
References: <24369@pyramid.pyramid.com> <355@mipseast.mips.COM> <1017@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <1017@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> by nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson):
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| I'm surprised that no one has come to the following conclusion:
| 
| AT&T+Sun AND the OSF are gathering the wagons into circles because they're
| afraid of the GNUs.  Think about what's going to happen when rms finishes
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WHO hasn't come to that conclusion?  Check my "desperation move" article
again.  GNU-style full openness is preferable to two lockouts.

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| the kernel?  There is a tremendous market opportunity for a firm that
| simply offers support for GNUnix.  They need no investment other than
| that needed to become a GNUnix wizard.  And, because of the restrictions
| on derivatives of GNU, they will benefit from everyone else's work.
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Before anyone says "can't happen":  ask yourself "what is mtXinu?"  That's
right... it's been done before.  It WILL be done if AT&T and/or the OSF
don't keep their mercenary tendencies in check.
-- 
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