Re: [Vrs-development] IBM Token Ring Thingy...

[morphius]

You wrote:

Chris is right. I think the GNU/FSF guys will be able to help us out in this.
Every database company has presence in this group and it is quite understandable
that they charge for this stuff, i suppose. They evidently have a dictionary
that has a different meaning for "Open" :-)

- Morphius


> On Wednesday 08 May 2002 16:56, you wrote:
> > Humm .. quite a stretch of the term "Open" at those
> > memberships fee prices.  It there any kind of
> > encumberance on these specs that might screw us up?
> 
> They're specs for 'open compatibility'.
> Implementing systems that conform to these won't cause any problems.
> 
> At least I don't think so.
> 
> Perhaps we could bounce this question over to the GNU guys who know.
> 
> I hope not - the XA/XATMI stuff is really important as it'll allow Goldwater
> to integrate with products such as Oracle.
> 
> C
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