DEC's suit (was `Splinter Unix?')

[Keith Gabryelski]

In article <254 at sdba.UUCP> stan at sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown) writes:
>In article <581 at tapa.UUCP> larry at tapa.UUCP (Larry Somebody) writes:
>> Please don't forget that DEC was eliminated from an ongoing Air Force bid of
>> some $970mil (If I recall correctly).
>
>	DEC protested the Air Force contract you are talking about
>	because it specifiec SVID.  At the time DEC (I believe) a
>	SVID compliant OS that they were selling to other markets,

Actually, DEC is Ultrix which is BSD, right?  I thought DEC protested
because they were not in the spec (not being SVID compliant).  As I
remember, DEC won.  The government had to leave out the SVID compliant
part of the spec.

>	but wanted to make the point that the Govenmrnt (which can't
>	specicfy vendor specific details) couldn't (in DEC's opinion)
>	specify SYSVID as it was vendor specific.

I seriously doubt that DEC would complain if the contract was in their
favor.

>	If I have ny of this wrong please feel free to correct me.

Ditto.

--Keith
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