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From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@super.zippo.com>
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On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 10:05:59 +0100 (MET), Udo Wolter wrote:

>Do you mean, Sun will develop an own implementation of FreeBSD ? Back to
>SunOS again (yes, PLEASE ! Solaris sucks...) ? Will they sell it ?
>
>Any more Infos ?


I don't think the BSD license will allow Sun to "own" the port.
Besides this Sun division doesn't care (harware division) about
making money on the software they want to sale more Sparcs. My take
once the port is up to a reasonable state that it will be back to the
volunteers.