It's now 1989 and UNIX is 1968. Standards for UNIX are coming. This will halt progress. That will provide the opportunity for something better to enter the marketplace. You see, as long as UNIX keeps slipping and makes some progress, nothing better will come along.
Generic software has absolutely no value.
The GNU approach to software is one extreme. Of course, it violates my axiom of the top programmers demanding lots of money for their products. Our biggest worry at Sun is going to be managing our eventual slowdown in growth. We've gone from zero to a multi-billion dollar company without even one quarter of slowdown. That cannot continue forever.