O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T?

[Henry Spencer]

> ... Having a 'standard' defined by one (or two) companies'
> proprietary system may not be a good idea...

An amusing sidelight on this one is that in a talk a while ago here, some
Sun folks criticized MSDOS et al for being controlled by two companies!
They didn't have a satisfactory answer when I challenged them about it.
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