Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:24:24 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: "Alton, Matthew" <Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com> Cc: DL-ADM <DLADM@anheuser-busch.com>, "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: AIX going BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903311617510.498-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <BED2E68B5FB4D21193C90008C7C56836564C87@STLABCEXG012>
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Alton, Matthew wrote: > This lends credence to my lond-held hypothesis that all > commercial UNICES are secretly floating on 4.4BSD UNIX - > The OS that God runs on his PDP/11 up in Heaven. No > wonder they won't free up their source code. It'd be too > embarassing. You guys are showing snobbery, just as surely as the commercial world. You forget that BSD was proprietary software for years (only available if you had AT&T licenses) and it would be very difficult to find any Unix version at all (outside of that bought directly from AT&T) that didn't have some BSD code in it. That's been the situation for 15 years, and now you want to discover it? AIX is *not* doing anything at all outside the usual, and it would, in fact, be remarkable (and outside the expected norm) if you *didn't* find some BSD code in it. Why don't you go look at, oh, Hewlett Packard, or some other mainstream vendor? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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