[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“By 1984, there were over a dozen separate proprietary UNIX
variants each with it’s own standards and applications. Developers
became frustrated by these variants and abandoned UNIX. By 1996
Microsoft, Novel, and others had replaced nearly all of the market
once owned by UNIX.”
“Linux is a renaissance of UNIX on the PC, but without
control, it may very well suffer the same fate of its
ancestor. To this end, it is necessary to create standards of
development for programmers; without these standards, code-forking
and incompatibility are inevitable.”
“I propose a non-profit vendor independent organization be
established to direct the standards on which developers and
corporations may base their Linux programs.”
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