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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: AT&T Joining OSF
Message-ID: <24128@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 28 Jul 88 15:47:03 GMT
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Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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In-reply-to: kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM's message of 27 Jul 88 21:04:01 GMT


From: kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft)
>rogers@ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM (H. L. Rogers) writes:
>> Does AT&T membership give respectability to the OSF crowd?
>
>Actually, it was AT&T and Sun who were lacking in respectability after
>trying to steal the whole market for themselves.

"Steal" is a very strange choice of words to apply to the owner (AT&T).

Mayhaps the pot calls the kettle black? Nah, I'm sure the OSF members
were only trying to reassert their firm commitment to the rights of
software owners...

Anyone want to join me in forming the CLOSED SOFTWARE FOUNDATION?
(a subsidiary of my EMPEROR'S NEW SOFTWARE FOUNDATION.)

We can talk about how we're going to enforce industry standards on
VMS, MVS, CMS, AEGIS, etc, all those things that end in S instead of X.

Then we can accuse them of STEALING the market!

Ah well, it's not suprising to see this all break down to Sunday
afternoon sports-bar-babble.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University