Re: Tocqueville on open source development

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 01:01 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Dan Strychalski wrote:
 
>Currently, ONLY non-commercial operating systems allow me to enjoy the
>intended benefits of the formal, INDUSTRY-APPROVED standards I cherish
>more than almost anything else.

Not so. Most of those standards were, in fact, developed by the
creators of closed-source OSes, such as TOPS-10, TENEX, TOPS-20,
Solaris, Ultrix, AT&T UNIX, etc. Sun, in particular, has been very
good about opening its standards (such as NFS).

Don't tar the creators of these commercial OSes with the same brush
as Microsoft; they do not deserve it. It's only Microsoft that seeks
to deprive you of the benefits of open standards. Commercial operating
systems that support those standards deserve our respect and patronage.

--Brett