Re: Closed system (was: PC connection via twinax ?)

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Steve Richter wrote:
>
> I think you still need one entity in charge of the system. Someone who owns
> it and makes all the final decisions. The new version of apache seems to be
> very late, past its expected completion date. What is the holdup with a
> standard gui version of linux, one that can compete with our ms friends?
>

Linux isn't really a whole operating system.   Linux is just the kernel,
and that's all Linus is in charge of.  Therefore, it is very unlikely that
there will ever be "one standard gui version."   The various shells,
tools, commands, etc are supplied by various other entities.

IF you want an open operating system that's entirely controlled by one
team, check out FreeBSD.   http://www.freebsd.org/

You make a good point that there has to be someone in charge of it.  In
the (unlikely, IMHO) event that OS/400 becomes open source, a "core team"
of some sort would need to be created that would guide the project.  These
could certainly be employees of IBM, but don't necessarily NEED to be.