Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!udel!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T? Message-ID: <1017@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 1 Jun 88 19:52:11 GMT References: <24369@pyramid.pyramid.com> <355@mipseast.mips.COM> Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 19 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. Think about what's going to happen when rms finishes the kernel? There is a tremendous market opportunity for a firm that simply offers support for GNUnix. They need no investment other than that needed to become a GNUnix wizard. And, because of the restrictions on derivatives of GNU, they will benefit from everyone else's work. 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? Parting shot: If IBM is so impressed by Unix, why aren't they on Usenet? Can you say FUD? -- char *reply-to-russ(int network) { if(network == BITNET) return "NELSON@CLUTX"; else return "nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu"; }