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I remember when Sun Microsystems and AT&T teamed up in the late 1980s and Sun announced the next version of their OS would be based on SysV UNIX instead of BSD

I remember when Sun Microsystems and AT&T teamed up in the late 1980s and Sun announced the next version of their OS would be based on SysV UNIX instead of BSD UNIX. Since Sun was this massive force in the UNIX market back then, other UNIX vendors formed the Open Software Foundation (OSF) in protest. In many ways, Red Hat and IBM are the modern Sun Microsystems and AT&T, so it's not surprising that their competitors are essentially doing the same thing.

the_why_of_y 3y ago
> their competitors are essentially doing the same thing. OSF was developing an operating system[1] based on Mach, a file system from IBM, and BSD's IP stack, that intentionally had very little in common with AT&T UNIX. OpenELA is trying to create a carbon copy of their competitor's product, guided by the slogan "bug-for-bug compatible". These reactions couldn't be further apart. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1