From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Dec 16 18:46:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA27356 for sparc-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral.com (mjacob@feral.mauswerks.net [204.152.96.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA27337 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:46:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: (from mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id SAA25484; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:46:12 -0800 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:46:12 -0800 From: Matthew Jacob Message-Id: <199712170246.SAA25484@feral.com> To: rob@ControlQ.com, softweyr@xmission.com Subject: Re: Freeloading FreeBSD for Free -- NOT! Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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