[OpenAFS] ACLs and open-afs

[Steven N. Hirsch]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> > with the Win32 support, as I bet a lot of sites do. Somebody could
> > make a good bit of cash selling support to universities by producing
> > a commercial Win32 client.
> 
> Someone did (well, for NT/2000/XP) and to be honest I still have no idea
> why they're quitting the business.

Are you speaking of IBM/Transarc?  They are quitting because it's not an 
"ooh, wow" hype-filled endeavor that's guaranteed to produce earnings 
(either real or virtual) next quarter and every quarter thereafter.  

Cynical?  Me?