Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!clsib21!blblbl!mipseast!rogerk From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T? Message-ID: <355@mipseast.mips.COM> Date: 27 May 88 17:35:29 GMT References: <24369@pyramid.pyramid.com> Reply-To: rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA Lines: 21 In article <24369@pyramid.pyramid.com> sas@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Scott Schoenthal) writes: >I think that if IBM, DEC, et al., were truly interested in delivering an open >implementation of Mumblix (or whatever their derivative of Un*x is to be >called), the money would have been best spent in funding an independent effort >(e.g., FSF or a university). This is tremendously naive. "Open" here means equally available for input and for delivery to all vendors who participate in the group. This does not imply "free". Free software is fine, but *supported* software is more important, and outside the hacker community, sales and service cannot be uncoupled in the majority of situations. The user community is better served by a full-cost operating system which is compatible among platforms and offers support than by a hunk of wizard code that can be run on any box, but offers no single point of control and support for the hardware-software combination. -- Roger B.A. Klorese MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!rogerk 25 Burlington Mall Rd, Suite 300 rogerk@mips.COM Burlington, MA 01803 I don't think we're in toto any more, Kansas... +1 617 270-0613