O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T?

[Henry Spencer]

> AT&T+Sun AND the OSF are gathering the wagons into circles because they're
> afraid of the GNUs.

It is to laugh.  Most of the people involved in setting up OSF wouldn't
know a GNU if it bit them.

> Think about what's going to happen when rms finishes the kernel?

Yeah, all the potential users will look at, see all the unnecessary
incompatible changes, say "ugh", and go back to Unix/OSFnix/whatever.

> ... because of the restrictions
> on derivatives of GNU, they will benefit from everyone else's work.

Such of it as gets done, of course.  Because of those same restrictions,
many companies have decided that GNU is not worth working on.

> Who do you think will provide better customer support?  A company that
> sells customer support, i.e. GNU Wizards, Inc.?  Or a company that
> sells Unix boxes i.e. AT&T+SUN+OSF?

Considering the disparity of resources (and the increasing tendency of
hardware manufacturers to lock customers into their own software by not
documenting the hardware well enough for somebody else to port to it),
clearly the latter.
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