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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (33315)	11/8/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: SC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Cheryl, why would you saddle us with a slow, bloated, and inefficient standard? As long as we are going to appropriate somebodies operating system for the common good, why don't we appropriate a better OS. Maybe we could make BeOS the standard. Or perhaps we could pass some sort of federal legislation which forces SUN to develop and distribute Solaris 8.x for free. Then we could mandate free hardware licensing and we could all dump x86 in favor of the lightening fast and attractively priced SUN Solaris clone platforms. SUN, of course would be free to continue to develop applications in free and fair competition with everyone else. If SUN demonstrates enhanced quality and reliability with their hardware products they could continue to command some sort of price premium for the hardware. Certainly if they provide n'est plus ultra service they would have the basis for an excellent marketing campaign to convince buyers to buy the real thing and not the clone. Steve

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (33315)	11/8/1999 11:30:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I don't believe in absurdity in the same manner as you, Gerald. Obviously. Linux is open, the source is available to anyone who wants to look at it, the c libs are standardized as are the compilers. They are all free of charge last time I checked. Linux and Gnu people chose to give away their intellectual property. You want to force Microsoft (and any other proprietary OS vendor) to do so. One is a decision. The other is theft. Vote With Your Dollars. The general public has and you just don't like the election results.