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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 1995 10:41:00 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCO owns UNIX now? 
Message-ID:  <199509211641.KAA02202@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <18883.811697224@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <m0svbIn-0004w8C@nemesis.lonestar.org> <18883.811697224@time.cdrom.com>

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> > Just FYI, on the news wires this afternoon was an article
> > saying Novell was selling all of the UNIX "property" to SCO.
> > Interesting little twist...
> 
> Yes indeed.  I am at USENIX right now and am currently talking with
> some of the SCO folks on what their plans for all this are.  A
> promising sign is that they are actually _enthusiastic_ about the
> prospect of SCO binary emulation in FreeBSD and I am seeing if I can't
> possibly convince them to be even more supportive than that, like
> maybe providing a little technical assistance for making it work a lot
> better than it does now - both now and for their next product.

How about making things like SCO shlibs available?  That would be *way*
too cool for us.  There is a version of libc_s available, but we don't
have the libnsl_s library necessary for many applications.



Nate



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