Open Software Foundation

[Dave Decot]

> The Open Software Foundation has $90Million in funding, and are going
> to be hiring "hundreds" of people.
> 
> I don't care about WHY they're doing it.
> 
> Reading between the lines, I gather they're going to rewrite EVERYTHING so
> that it contains no ATT licensed code.  If they pull it off, many people
> will be very happy.  I only wish they had given the money to GNU (I know
> some people talked to some other people) or UCB.
> 
> Regardless of what happens, it's going to be an exciting time in the ole'
> Unix world.

I agree.  Note that OSF also includes a university research program.

Dave Decot
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