[Sussex] Ok the gauntlets on the floor!

Wed Jun 9 16:36:13 UTC 2004

Angelo

Any chance of re-posting this without all the embedded html?

Tony

>
> I was having a discussion with one of my pro M$ workmates today about the
> "Non American-ness" of LINUX (this was because of the predominantly
> American
> base of M$ and its supported software base) and I stated that Linux is now
> globally "Owned" and in any case many distros are not "American" although
> some are.
>
> He (Ajay) answered with the following.
> ======================================================
> depends on who you believe!
>
> Open Software Foundation
> <body <contents/body.html>> (OSF) A foundation created by nine computer
> vendors, (Apollo <foldoc.cgi?Apollo>, DEC <foldoc.cgi?DEC>,
> Hewlett-Packard
> <foldoc.cgi?Hewlett-Packard>, IBM <foldoc.cgi?IBM>, Bull
> <foldoc.cgi?Bull>,
> Nixdorf <foldoc.cgi?Nixdorf>, Philips <foldoc.cgi?Philips>, Siemens
> <foldoc.cgi?Siemens> and Hitachi <foldoc.cgi?Hitachi>) to promote "Open
> Computing". It is planned that common operating system
> <foldoc.cgi?operating+system>s and interfaces, based on developments of
> Unix
> <foldoc.cgi?Unix> and the X Window System <foldoc.cgi?X+Window+System>
> will
> be forthcoming for a wide range of different hardware architectures. OSF
> announced the release of the industry's first open operating system
> <foldoc.cgi?operating+system> - OSF/1 on 23 October 1990.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Ajay Askoolum
> Sent:	09 June 2004  12:51 PM
> To:	Angelo Servini
> Subject:	3 of the 5 are AMERICAN! the other 2 are Japanese,
> operating/innovating in the USA
>
>
> Open Software Foundation
> The Open Software Foundation was formerly an independent unit of what is
> nowadays joined with the X/Open Company in The Open Group
> <../../t/th/the_open_group.html>.
>
>
> The Open Group
> The Open Group is a industry consortium <../../c/co/consortium.html>
> sponsored by IBM <../../i/ib/ibm.html>, Sun Microsystems
> <../../s/su/sun_microsystems.html>, Hitachi <../../h/hi/hitachi.html>,
> Hewlett-Packard <../../h/he/hewlett_packard.html> and Fujitsu
> <../../f/fu/fujitsu.html> for forming de facto-standards in the field of
> software engineering <../../s/so/software_engineering.html>, in particular
> APIs.
> =======================================================
>
> My question is is the Open Software Foundation predominantly American?  If
> so does that mean that we are still dominated by American interests as far
> as Linux is concerned?
>
> <Id better go now and get my flame-proof vest!>
>
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Tony Austin
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