And AT&T’s plans to spin out the Unix Software Operation’s are progressing, and the company is looking at something more than simply offering shares in it to Unix International Inc members: Robert Kavner has called a meeting for early next year and invited Open Software Foundation members and others to attend and DEC says it is definitely intending to show up, implying a further crack in the solidarity of the crumbling Open Software Foundation, whose role now seems likely to reduce to coming up with optional add-ons to a standard built on Unix System V.4.