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Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:43:05 -0400
From:	"Michael D. Crawford" <crawford AT goingware DOT com>
Organization:	GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
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Subject:	Re: no dice yet on .net server?

A while back I wrote an opinion piece about how OS vendors to developers a 
disservice by getting them to write their apps to platform-specific APIs:

Freeing the Developer from OS Vendor Shackles
http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/doc/why.html

I think the posix subsystem in NT was originally meant to qualify Windows for 
government procurement.  It's for much the same reason that Apple developed A/UX.

But now that lots of people in the government are using Windows, they're using 
Win32 apps and not running stuff in posix anymore.  So I guess those regulations 
seem to have fallen by the wayside.

Mike
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      Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.


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