My basic gut feeling is that the OpenGroup has done exactly the wrong
thing at exactly the wrong time. At a time when NT is making great inroads
into traditional Unix shops to see someone come along and make at least
some portion of Unix even less accessable and more expensive just seems to
me to be absolutely ignorant unless their plan is to migrate X to a native
NT environment from Unix. Sure, XFree may always be free but as Alan
points out, to what extent will the free X diverge from X? On the other
hand, has the OpenGroup just made X a non-player and pushed even more
players to XFree? At this point X has no choice but go to NT or die as
they have, in my opinion, just committed suicide.
George Bonser
Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals.
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Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system.
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