[Bush2000]

None of us should be surprised by this. *nix vendors have been squabbling over standards and licensing and technology issues for a very, very long time -- and the practical result is fragmentation in the *nix marketplace. Now, Linux is poised to suffer the same fate.

[Coral Snake]

If it and its General Commie Virus (GPL) are not revoked in this country in the first place with all these stolen code lawsuits. Glad to see you back. Now with Golden Eagle and myself there are at least THREE of us who believe in the commandment THOU SHALT NOT STEAL in these FReeper tech threads.

[Golden Eagle]

*nix vendors have been squabbling over standards and licensing and technology issues for a very, very long time -- and the practical result is fragmentation in the *nix marketplace. Now, Linux is poised to suffer the same fate.

Exactly correct, except that they've already had this problem for a while, and it is only getting worse. Red Hat, Red Flag, SuSe, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, the list grows every day. And they ALL still fail to see the value of 'integration'.