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Re: Origin of X
Thank you, Doron Zifrony for the extensive review.
As the beginner of the subject (was: "X vs. Windows",
was: "was: "Linux vs. Microsoft""), and as the only person
here who knows Bob (the Bill of UNIX) personally, I'd
like to add some words:
My intention was not to flood the list with so many
messages. I just wanted to give a URL which discussed the
issue of Linux vs. Microsoft, from a very positive point
of view. I must thank Doron again, because he changed
the subject name totally, and now it is not a derivation
of the original name that I gave it.
The list had so many messages in this issue, even more
than the discussions about Mark's language. There is even
a special WWW site for this discussion. Please believe me:
IT WAS NOT MY INTENTION, REALLY!
Doron can tell you, that when I gave him the address of this
list, I warned him that he may get too much garbage. I'm
afraid that we lost many subscribers because of it (is there
any statistics?). Please be more responsible!
Regarding to Bob Scheifler, unfortunately X Consortium
will be closed on Dec. 31 :-( :-( :-(
Rights for X will be transferred to the Open Group
:-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(
which is the merger of X/Open (yes! the body that killed
CDE, which was the last chance of UNIX to win Win), and
of OSF (yes! the body that killed DCE and helped X/Open
in killing CDE!).
BTW: one of the biggest mysteries among the X Consortium
staff, was whether Bob is Jewish. About half of the staff
is Jewish, and there was even an ex-Israeli (Rafi Mor), or
you can say "X-Israeli" :-)
Now, the whole staff is going to be ex (or ex-X), and it is
very sad.
--
Eli Marmor
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References:
- Origin of X
- From: doron@jaguar.dgt.co.il (Doron Zifrony)