[Sussex] RE: Ok the gauntlets on the floor!

[Angelo Servini]

Sorry about the unformatted last mail - the embedded html has now been
removed.


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.
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> -----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
>
>depends on who you believe!
>
>************************
>Open Software Foundation
>************************
>(OSF) A foundation created by nine computer vendors, (Apollo, DEC,
Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Bull, Nixdorf, Philips, Siemens and >Hitachi) to
promote "Open Computing". It is planned that common operating systems and
interfaces, based on developments of
>Unix and the 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 - OSF/1 on 23 October
1990. 
>
>The Open Software Foundation was formerly an independent unit of what is
nowadays joined with the X/Open Company in The Open >Group
>
>************************
>The Open Group
>************************
>The Open Group is a industry consortium sponsored by IBM, Sun Microsystems,
Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu for forming >de facto-standards in the
field of software engineering, in particular APIs.
>=======================================================
>

My questions are, 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?

It certainly seems so.  (though Phillips above should be European?)

But what about the European interests/producers of standards and distros,
what/who are they?

<Id better go now and get my flame-proof vest!>

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Angelo Servini
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