[8] in Layered Athena
Re: Another item for the list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Thu Oct 29 00:58:59 1992
To: layered-athena@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 92 00:58:26 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>> 4.Conflicts with Vendor operating system
>> (a) Whenever possible, we should avoid conflicting with similar
>> systems provided by the vendor.
>> (b) If we provide an enhanced version of a program the vendor also
>> provides, we must not remove the vendor version from the
>> system, merely rename it or put ours earlier in the users'
>> search path.
IMHO, the workstation owner should be able to choose (with sufficient
warnings) to completely override vendor software, if the athena subset
is compatible. That is, if I buy, say, an RS/6000, I should be able
to completely replace the vendor X11 system, so that third party apps
will use my xterm and my shared libs, etc.
Marc
