Open Software Foundation

[Edward Wilkinson]

I  agree with the sentiment  that  even a tiny fraction of  that $90 M
would go a *long* way towards helping FSF. Rms and friends are doing a
magnificent job on next to no  funds at  all.  Unfortunately, a recent
note in the info-gnu mailing list suggests that  OSF have no intention
of  producing a Public Domain version  of Unix.  This is crazy.  After
all the standardisation efforts, we're diverging again.

To help the situation, why doesn't someone from AT&T or Sun  put out a
statement saying that the V.4 or  whatever will NOT be Sparc-dependant
& will run on  all  chips.  If AT&T  can promise this &  reverse their
restrictive licencing agreements, there will be no NEED for OSF.

Let's not stuff things up just as Unix was getting popular.

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