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To: chic_hearne who wrote (32694)	6/8/2000 2:01:00 PM
From: Thomas C. Kimmel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Well chic, Sun went thru the UNIX wars, painfully. The conflicts were in no small part caused by IBM's and others' desires to "embrace and extend (or obstruct)" the establishment of a standard. What POSIX established was too little and way too slow. Some process has to both provide a timely standard and avoid fragmentation. The story I linked cites one person (from Apache, no less) who was willing to say that the JCP could be it. I've heard all of your complaints before. FWIW, my experience has been that, when it comes to supporting standards, Sun has always been far ahead of IBM (and HP and Sequent and DEC and everybody except maybe NCR). -tck