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mal%acme.draper.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Mark Lamourine) writes:
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> This seems to me to be a grey area. While OSF is chartered to foster 
> standardization, they are not devoted in any way to free software.
> 
> If my understanding is correct, they are supposedly devoted to
> selecting those software items that seem to be most accepted in the
> industry, and incorporating those items into their portfolio. However,
> in their recent "Standard Selections" release, there was one notable
> exception. NFS was not selected as the networking system.
> 
> Now, at first this may seem obvious. Sun is not a member of OSF. However,
> NFS *IS* the pervasive networking system on Unix machines (in my experience).
> If OSF is truly dedicated to fostering standardization, Sun should at least
> have been approached about it. It is my understanding that they were not.

You neglect the possibility that they rejected it for techical reasons (i.e.,
"it sucks")...  Assumedly, the suckfulness difference it and what they did
pick would have to be quite large to reject something so widely used.  Or
maybe they did do it to annoy Sun.  That would be pretty funny, actually.