From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 20:47:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FAF516A4B3 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parts-unknown.org (dsl093-170-248.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.170.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84A9343F3F for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:47:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: (qmail 13358 invoked by uid 501); 24 Sep 2003 03:47:10 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:47:10 -0700 From: David Benfell To: Viktor Lazlo Message-ID: <20030924034710.GA13326@parts-unknown.org> Mail-Followup-To: Viktor Lazlo , Dragoncrest , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030921005404.GR16686@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030920210753.GA38330@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030921005404.GR16686@wantadilla.lemis.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030923195327.01d25a40@pop.voyager.net> <20030923191237.N381@njamn8or.no-ip.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030923191237.N381@njamn8or.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-stardate: [-29]0945.70 X-moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (5% of Full) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO Group X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:47:09 -0000 --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I fear this thread is off topic, but... On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:14:10 -0700, Viktor Lazlo wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: >=20 > > Of course MS and Sun are loving this up and helping out SCO a = lot > > since they see Linux as their worst competitor. In their eyes the soon= er > > linux dies the happier they'll be. Oh well, too late now cause Linux (= and > > the BSD's) are here to stay. :) >=20 > Actually Sun is developing their own desktop-oriented Mad Hatter > distribution of Linux. >=20 This is one of those depressingly frequent cases where facts are needed and I have few to offer. Sun has being rolling the Open Source concept around at least since they acquired StarOffice; they hired Linuxcare, my then-employer, to provide technical support. Greg Lehey may well remember this; it occurred in the same timeframe as Linuxcare was toying with the notion of extending its business model into FreeBSD space. The indications then were that they just weren't quite getting it. And it seems bizarre that they are entering this space, a marginal proposition at best, with a Linux distribution in these economic conditions. My dark suspicion is that they are hoping to embrace and suffocate. I could be wrong -- they've certainly had enough people trying to explain Open Source to them for the last several years, and it's possible they've seen the light. But I doubt it. My own guess is that Sun's Linux distribution will disappear along with any number of other projects that Sun has floated from time to time. --=20 David Benfell, LCP benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/resume.html --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iQEXAwUBP3ETvHw5zqzgtjVOFAKwMgP/WRqzNAIABMLIsMBjuF9ciczD0xykcu4+ X+1tt0F2ZNkEGsZA1VBKXXESh/NlPmrM9fwEnNJZWPbBWYuKJVqOQ3yGYtpAl4Un e2uN1TGG61opeHpK3K6QHuH/Wo3kxS5/noSO6Zfjo076YH+nfwattZIqJrxryrIU f153P0373kID/j4a/K/KhQ9Xj5tnM80ysi9MR03eqhDIOVAtEMJDdQ/DaS3cv9P6 LB8SC34sUtRlwUtjAuc17Ng9Fpbrk3GnCdfEU2ZMmnaDZenH9Qm3mDuxtdp13UKh n00QA6cO4dwCrYnUUcpbJ4N4yVsD9EXChkr3m3GJcwlSfeAuoXXHBopY =XZeD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga--