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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!world!mv!news.missouri.edu!vortex.cc.missouri.edu!rhys From: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: 17 Apr 1996 22:51:51 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4l3sm7$17bi@news.missouri.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <yfglok14n5r.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <316ECE94.61162F47@dark.mountain.stronghold> <4kntvi$hmm@agate.berkeley.edu> <199604161742.SAA02177@kythera.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: vortex.cc.missouri.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21350 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:582 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3188 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2996 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17317 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45399 Ray Auchterlounie (rda@kythera.demon.co.uk) wrote: : It's not difficult, for example, to envisage some applications only : being available for Linux-FT-Posix-Certified and others only for : Caldera. The different distributions may not always run on the same : hardware. There's not much difference between: : "Product X available for unix" (requires Sparc running Solaris) : "Product Y available for unix" (IBM AIX or HP-UX only) : and : "Product X for Linux" (Caldera version bar only) : "Product Y for Linux" (FT-posix release foo required) : If this happens we've gone full circle back to a maze of different : unixes all based on Linux but all subtly different/incompatible and : all claiming to be the "standard". : The opportunity will then be well and truly missed. :( This isn't quite valid. While I see your point, and agree that it would be very well to avoid such a situation, in your example above, Solaris and AIX are two completely different Unices, while Caldera's Linux and FT-POSIX are still pretty much the same Linux underneath. -------- If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. Got a Linux problem? Or can you help others solve them? Visit the Linux Common Problems page at http://vortex.cc.missouri.edu/~rhys/linux.html rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu