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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:01:15 +1030

"linus killing linux" article

Here's a thought-provoking article:

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010126S0013

Here's a sample paragraph:

=============================================
What's more, industry titans such as IBM
Corp. (stock: IBM); Compaq Computer Corp.
(stock: CPQ); Intel Corp. (stock: INTC);
Hewlett-Packard Corp. (stock: HWP); and
Oracle Corp. (stock: ORCL) are pouring
billions of dollars into developing Linux
products and want to exert more influence on
the direction of the kernel, based on
customer feedback. 
=============================================

This seems to suggest that linux could one day go down the
same sort of path as the X Window Consortium or
the Internet Engineering Task Force.
I.e. In my opinion, linux could become some sort
of open standard watched over by an itnernational
standards body.

Does nyone agree with me?

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

PS. As always, please send flames to /dev/null.

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