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From ilug-admin@linux.ie  Tue Aug 13 10:45:32 2002

On 13.08.2002 at 08:42:44, "John P. Looney" <valen@tuatha.org> wrote:
>  Vendors wrote their own wierd-ass installers & config tools to lock
> people to their OS, they added all sorts of functionality that was not
> availible to other OSes to make themselves different from the competition
> (Motif on non-free OSes, incompatible filesystems etc).
Not sure Motif is a good example, really. When Mozilla was going through its
"Let's Use Motif/Let's Not" phase, Jamie Zawinski mentioned in passing that the
installed base of Motif-bearing systems kicked the installed base of
Linux-bearing systems into a huddled ball. Something, perhaps, to do with the
fact that every
Sun/Solaris box since version mumble shipped with it, plus every HP/UX box,
and
for all I know every other mainstream proprietary Linux. Motif was more a
unifier across Unix subspecies than a differentiator.
Now, filenames longer than 14 characters, maybe, or the options for ps (are we
sysv or bsd?), or the whole /dev tree, or the libc implementation...
Cheers,
Waider.
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