Which is why Hewlett-Packard (thanks Mr. Rego for reminding us all) is going
to announce the end of MPE as a sole OS on the 3K, and instead, allow UNIX,
MPE/ix, LINUX, and whatever the hell else we need/want to run on the
3k...Yaaa (flinging my arms and doing 'yaaaa' in the Kermit the Frog style).
:-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Gambrell [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:40 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Nasty rumor -> Email Carly at......
>
> "Pickering, John (NORBORD)" wrote:
> >
> > donna wrote ...
> >
> > >...and i would be nervous about committing my livelihood to
> > >any proprietary solution at this point.         - d
> >
> > And the alternative would be ????
> >
> > HP's proprietary Unix?
> > Sun's proprietary Unix?
> > IBM's proprietary Unix?
> > Red Hat's proprietary Linux?
> > Some roll-your-own Long's version of something else?
> >
> > It's ALL proprietary.
>
> Sorry, but that's silly and it's not fair to Donna besides!
>
> Your freed from both the hardware angle and the operating system
> license angle.  That is unique to the open source community of
> systems that run on common hardware, compared to the others you
> list.
>
> Linux has a much better track record than Unix for cross platform
> portability and it is free for the cost of downloading and a
> license that gives you the source code and protects you from a
> vendor playing proprietary games.
>
> Unix provided a taste of a cross platform environment with
> similar architecture, and provided competiton between hardware
> vendors compared to MPE, VMS, OS/400, and all the rest of the Mini
> world.  This upset the operating systems apple cart in the 1990s.
>
> Linux now takes a major step further ahead by a more common core
> of functionality, but more important is the source code license.
> BSD also has a generous source code license.
>
> Running on commodity hardware is the other major change.  Linux
> runs on nearly anything, but the most common hardware may be bought
> from many vendors.  You can mix and match parts from different
> vendors and your not violating any license and it even works (most of
> the time).  This is one of Windows' advantages over the others
> (and the credit goes to IBM, not Microsoft).
>
> Why do you think Microsoft spends so much effort bashing Linux and
> the open source approach?
>
> Richard
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