rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) (08/11/88)
Copied from DIGITAL NEWS August 1, 1988, p. 63: "I'm putting my self-righteous hat on, my preacher's hat", Olsen said. "Do you know what IBM and Sun and [AT&T] and HP and us and 20 other people are going to do? Each one of us are going to make our Unix better than anyone else's. Which means...there are going to be things besides Posix that are so good that you're going to want to reach in and use them. And that's what's going to make them proprietary." "We invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the thing, and it is going to be good because we want to have a better one. But a better one means that something in there's not standard." "You're going to want to buy ours or IBM's in order to be able to use our features. And so we immediately lose much of what we set out to do", Olsen said. "We're going to do such a good Unix. There will be so many features that people are going to become dependent on, even though it makes it nontransportable. And we can support it because our Unix is going to be proprietary." "Proprietary not to be vicious; proprietary because this is going to be so good. We're so sure we can do better than anyone else." -------------------------------end of excerpt-------------------------- If this is the attitude the other OSF members are taking, so much for portability and unified direction. Bob Halloran ========================================================================= UUCP: att!mtune!rkh Internet: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM Apple ConsumerLink: RobertH107 GEnie:R.HALLORAN USPS: 19 Culver Ct, Old Bridge NJ 08857 DDD: 201-251-7514 eve ET Disclaimer: If you think AT&T would have ME as a spokesman, you're crazed. Quote: "History is made at night. Character is what you are in the Dark." - Dr. Lizardo/John Whorfin, "Buckaroo Banzai" =========================================================================