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

[Mitch Che]

In article <3c3a336e.13422 at apollo.uucp> mishkin at apollo.UUCP (Nathaniel Mishkin) writes:
>BTW, I object to the various speculation (on the part of several people)
>on the topic of the "ulterior motives" of DEC and IBM.
Even the experts can only speculate, but only DEC is confused enough 
to try and convince the world that they are all for UNIX (whatever its 
form) and/or "open systems" on the one hand, while its president talks 
up VMS and complains about UNIX on the other. (Not too long ago, we 
requested a DEC microVAX II with Ultrix; DEC shipped it to us with 
VMS.  That says something, but I don't know what.)

IBM and DEC would prefer to have to deal with only proprietary 
operating systems, period. If UNIX disappeared off the face of the 
earth, we'd probably hear a (quiet) round of applause from DEC and 
IBM.  But that's OK, that's business. No one expects them to be 
altruistic.  I don't expect that from AT&T, I certainly don't expect it 
from Big Blue. I do expect a multi-vendor choice and if OSF is the 
way, that's fine. It might even work. After all, DEC and IBM have 
SUCH a fine track record of supporting a competitive hardware and 
operating system environment! (Personally I choose from the wide 
selection at "VMS 'r US" or was that "MVS 'r US"? :-) 
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