O'pain Software Foundation: (3) relationship to GNU & openness

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at quintus.UUCP
Thu Jun 2 15:07:35 AEST 1988


In article <358 at mipseast.mips.COM>, rogerk at mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
> In article <1018 at cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> >What puzzles me is what took the OSF so long.  The SUN/AT&T UNIX merge has
> >been publicised for a couple of years.
> 
> Yes, but when it was started, AT&T wasn't an owner of Sun...

AT&T owning 7.5% of the shares of Sun is a big threat,
but AT&T and Sun co-operating on the actual product wasn't?
C'mon, when you have a joint project that important, you *expect*
some such stock arrangement.  If IBM's market analysts couldn't see
that coming the day the UNIX merge was announced, they weren't
doing their job.

It has been said that the final thing will be a three-way AT&T/Sun/Xenix
merge.  Anyone know what's happening on the Xenix side?



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