Open Software Foundation

[Lance Berc]

>From today's WSJ (pg10: IBM, Digital, Others Form Coalition On Unix...)

	They cordoned off an area at Apollo's headquarters in Chelmsford,
	Mass., and put together a team of about fifty, consisting mainly
	of technical and marketing people - and "eight million lawyers",
	said Mr. Vanderslice (CEO Apollo).

Just whats needed when it's time to design/develop a new operating system:
a thundering herd of lawyers and marketeers all driven to blood lust with
thoughts of a piece of that $90,000,000 cash cow about to be unleashed...

Not an auspicious beginning for the technical design process. I agree with
the 1% to the FSF approach...

lance

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