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Re: Matthew Benjamin's note

Just for the record, I did not write the quotes that Matthew Benjamin
seems to attribute to me.  I'm sure this was an oversight in the editing
of the thread.   jamie


Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> Jamie love wrote:
> 
> >The term "open systems" was coined by  Unix vendors in the 80s when
> they saw interoperability among their systems as a way to >fight against
> losing market share to WinTel.  Their model was the IBM PC  which by
> publicly open standards (either released by >developers or set by
> consensus). Typically this was done by industry definition of common
> interfaces.
> >The initiative failed because UNIX vendors had every reason to "cheat",
> and create proprietary extensions because that was the only >way they
> could recoup their  investment in new technologies (else they would have
> to give them up for free to the other vendors).

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