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On February 17, 2012 at 11:22 AM Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> wrote:
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> > Projects like this have to
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> > battle the "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy of commercial interests.
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> What makes you think only commercial entities have that philosophy? As
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> far as I know Linux, also embraces and extends POSIX, for instance,
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> and has more or less managed to extinguish quite many competing POSIX
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> operating systems at least in the desktop market space.
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<p style="margin: 0px;">What makes you think I thought that?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Merely mentioning one does not mean I ignore similar aspects in other ventures/projects/etc.  I was just being specific due to the context of the conversation.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Please try to avoid making assumptions about my thinking, thanks.  I'll gladly return the favor.  No need IMO to ask that of a person on the list, anyway.  I will happily explain my positions in private email.</p>
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Randall (Randy) Arnold
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