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In article <1991Sep25.014440.7992@kithrup.COM>
sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
} In article <20016@scorn.sco.COM> timr@sco.COM (Tim Ruckle) writes:
} >I don't believe that the FSF is endorsing any Open System Standards
} >(POSIX, etc.) much less any binary compatibility specs--their goals
} >are significantly different than those companies which are properly
} >UNIX System vendors.
} 
} Now, as much as I hate to accuse SCO of deliberately spreading
} misinformation, that's what springs to mind here.  RMS and the FSF have
} claimed, since time immemorial, that they would support POSIX...

Nothing deliberate Sean: I didn't know that to be the case, and obviously
did not do my homework well enough on that one.

I'm very glad to learn that they will support POSIX.

} [...]
} Note also that, since HURD is based on Mach3.0, it would not be impossible
} to write a XENIX or iBCS-2 server -- given all the code you'll be able to
} borrow from the GNU code, it should even be almost easy.

Are you volunteering?  ;^)

} I hope Tim's statements were made out of ignorance, not out of an attempt to
} mislead people.

Entirely the former.  Thank you for setting me straight,

Tim Ruckle
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