Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T? Message-ID: <55233@sun.uucp> Date: 2 Jun 88 19:26:35 GMT References: <24369@pyramid.pyramid.com> <355@mipseast.mips.COM> <1017@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 11 > I'm surprised that no one has come to the following conclusion: > > AT&T+Sun AND the OSF are gathering the wagons into circles because they're > afraid of the GNUs. I'm not surprised in the least. None of the management here has indicated that they're afraid of GNU; I doubt any of the management at AT&T or in the management of the OSF are, either. Inventing motivations in the absence of evidence may be barrels of fun, but it's not particularly productive.