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From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <o8sf7do@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 7 Aug 92 06:50:54 GMT
Sender: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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kandall@nsg.sgi.com (Michael Kandall) writes:
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| One thing which has spurred, or been spurred by, the open systems
| movement is the licensing of technology between vendors. A much
| larger portion of programmers today are porting and integrating
| ``standard'' platform tools, as opposed to creating and developing new
| proprietary ones.
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Ah yes, reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
"In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to
be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so they can share each other's programs,
bugs included."
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, in "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?" (1975)
Today we use "standard" OSs and GUIs, so *everybody's* platforms are equally
slow and buggy...
-Rob
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Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)390-1673
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043