Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:12:59 +0800 From: Joerg Micheel <joerg@krdl.org.sg> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <19980812171259.39906@krdl.org.sg> In-Reply-To: <19980812014614.B16463@mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:46:14AM -0700 References: <199808120750.BAA05604@harmony.village.org> <Pine.GSO.4.00.9808120103400.6454-100000@redfish> <19980812014614.B16463@mooseriver.com>
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On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:46:14AM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > My guess is that Sun is beginning to feel the heat from FreeBSD and > Linux. Last time I looked very few people we running Solaris on X86. Mayby > they are starting to worry about all those older Sparc's running NetBSD. But too late. There was a proposal by Larry Wall back at the beginning of the 1990's to free SunOS source to prevent splitting of the R&D community into all these niches, but in vain. Still interesting reading, from a historical point of view. I need to see whether I still have the copy around somewhere. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg@krdl.org.sg> SingAREN Technology Center Phone: +65 7705577 Kent Ridge Digital Labs (pron: curdle) Fax: +65 7795966 11 Science Park Road Pager: +65 96016020 Singapore Science Park II Plan: Troubleshooting ATM 117685 Singapore Networks and Applications To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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