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To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (20094)	9/21/1999 7:15:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Was M$ dropping Xenix tied to a court ordered divestiture? With this (Interix), M$ gets POSIX? Reading some of the comments, I come away with there being speculation that M$ is buying it to sit on the Win32 'porting' technology, or are themselves porting free software back to Win32? slashdot.org I'm trying to picture a M$ 'remedy' that does not have them documenting their APIs. That is, it seems like a likely (although litigated) outcome to me. I'm speculating that M$ might be wanting to get out in front of that? It seems like it boils down to branding between M$ and the rest of the world, and the rest of the world has the better brand nowadays. Just thinking outloud. -JCJ

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (20094)	9/21/1999 7:18:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Respond to of 64865

Mitch, Thanks for the info. I've got a version of Xpdf. There are some O/S compatibility issues w/FreeBSD 2.2.6. Working through them. I agree w/you about MS/BSD. In fact, didn't MSFT at one time publish a version of Unix??? It was called Xenix or something wasn't it?? I'm sure Gates had it in his mind to continue w/the proprietary DOS instead of open standards Unix when he developed Windows. I'm also certain it was for the reasons you described.

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (20094)	9/21/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

BTW, M$ attacking themselves with M$/BSD and an M$ Win32 to M$/BSD (and Linux) porting kit, might be *quite prudent. If they move toward it before October 4th, that would qualify as Qwiksand's other shoe dropping (plus, it would really really really piss Bill Joy off). -JCJ

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (20094)	9/21/1999 8:34:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

David Korn's UWIN has provided this for over a year - SVR4 on NT plus the traditional UNIX command line utilities. This is UNIX within NT - no special boot. The whole point of it is to provide a pathway for UNIX applications to migrate to NT. Benefits to Msft are obvious but to companies developing products... 1. Can now build/debug/test with the more advanced IDE's available under Windows. 2. Freedom to integrate/use Msft and other 3rd party Windows technology. 3. One desktop; single boot. 4. UNIX Developers can still use the old familiar tools they were used too: vi, awk, sed, ... For application developers the future could see a blur of SVR4,POSIX,MFC,Win32 as just interfaces available on all OS's. Not OS specific as it is today.