Re: socket API extensions workgroup at OpenGroup needs HELP

Alexander Viro
2002-02-20T23:21:35Z

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> > Interested people should contact the working group co-chairs for details
> > about how to join the effort:
> > David Edmondson (david.edmondson@sun.co) or
> > Satya Sharma (ssharma@us.ibm.com)
> >
> > The URL of the OpenGroup Interconnect Software Consortium is:
> > http://www.opengroup.org/icsc/
>
> Yea, yea. The little problem here is that TOG is not getting it.
> When I see a website that says "Employees of member companies should
> send mail to the Consortium Administrator requesting access to the
> Member area.", I sure as hell is not getting a hardon about working
> on "overtaking Winsock" (and why exactly would we want to copy
> broken attempts to embrace and extend? Perhaps you should talk to
> a certain monkey lover company about it).

Is that, by any chance, the same crowd that stands behind DAFS?
If it _is_ the same crowd - send them to hell, they are beyond hope.