Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:46:12 -0800 From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: rob@ControlQ.com, softweyr@xmission.com Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freeloading FreeBSD for Free -- NOT! Message-ID: <199712170246.SAA25484@feral.com>
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Ummm. As a former Sun employee (and currently a contractor), let me throw in some possibly helpful perspective. Sun, like any other quite large company, is actually *many* companies- and not all of them have the same goals. SMCC makes sparc h/w, and for some of the folks there, the OS you use is irrelevant as long as you buy the h/w (run a full multitasking FORTH montitor, NT, SunOS, NetBSD, whatever....).. SunSoft sells the Operating System (choir, please). I had an old buddy and fellow DDI group member tell me a month ago that "Solaris will now become the De Facto Unix Standard". For those of you who've been with Unix long enough to remember, the only response to that is: eh? So, keep in mind *which* Sun you're talking about when you make statements about "Sun". -matt jacob
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