Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!sfmag!sfsup!sfmin!rye From: rye@sfmin.UUCP (R.Schwark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: att & osf Message-ID: <882@sfmin.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 16:07:17 GMT References: <4964@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3395@vpk4.UUCP> <1988Aug2.171126.17906@utzoo.uucp> <3396@vpk4.UUCP> <249@quintus.UUCP> <1275@sfmag.UUCP> <258@quintus.UUCP> <12118@ncoast.UUCP> <268@quintus.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Summit N.J. Lines: 17 > In article <12118@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: > Yes, let's have some light instead of quoting out of context, and > 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. > That's not fair. AT&T has been supporting POSIX and will continue to support POSIX. A Public standard is good for all of us. Particularly in that it makes other vendors more comfortable in being in the UNIX System market. Remember, we're not just fighting for shares of the UNIX System market, we're trying to make the whole market *bigger*. Ry Schwark attunix!rye rye@attunix.att.com