ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) (05/24/88)
My $0.02 worth: the whole POINT of the POSIX standard (and the FIPS extensions that finish the job) is to make endeavours like the OSF (and the FSF, for that matter) possible. The very fact that a bunch of companies can get together like that and credibly start to produce an AT&T- independent UNIX means that POSIX is a success. If IBM weren't in the group, I'd be cheering the OSF on, but I've seen too many IBM products to be sanguine about the outcome, whether IBM are doing it in good faith or not. Most of the OSF companies are already in X/Open, so it's plausible that they don't want to damage UNIX at all.