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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!newshost.vu.nl!cs.vu.nl!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 17 Jan 1996 10:48:11 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4digkr$83u@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4cu7t0$mg5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4cv8j1$59k@park.uvsc.edu> <4dg4uq$dl2@sungy.Germany.Sun.COM> <4dh5ab$58b@cypress.nwnet.net> <4dhfjn$4rl@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1896 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2041 comp.unix.solaris:56927 comp.unix.aix:68469 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >The problem is that the SVR4 interfaes are gratuitously >incompatible, not the other way around. It wasn't so long >ago that conforming to SVID would make you liable for an >interface copyright suit. It *is* the other way around. And when was conforming to SVID a copyright infringement? SVID was the US Government standard for Operating systems before POSIX, DEC sued the government (on the grounds of VMS) and lost. DEC lost because the SVID was free for implementation. Now, *that* was a long time ago. Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.