att & osf

[Dr. Emilio Lizardo]

In article <268 at quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
:let's have some common sense:  POSIX will be better for _everybody_
:(except AT&T) than the SVID, and a document which is totally controlled
:by one company can only be a stopgap as a standard.

Correct me if I'm wrong (as if I need to say that in this group :-) but
hasn't AT&T publicly committed its support to the POSIX effort?  Why
are SVID and POSIX seen to be mutually exclusive?  If you assume that,
because POSIX will be under the "control" of a group other than AT&T,
AT&T will suffer, I think you're mistaken.  Seems to me that AT&T will
reap a benefit wherever UNIX is pushed as an open industry standard.
The real question is whether they can take advantage of it in order
to sell their own hardware and software.

As to the last phrase in the cited text above -- I would hardly call SNA
"a stopgap as a standard" (although it's not a document per se).

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