From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 7 13: 6: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D095337C3DE for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:05:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA27789; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:06:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAHMaim2; Fri Jul 7 13:06:03 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA14052; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:05:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200007072005.NAA14052@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: A fortune(6) candidate (was: No port of Opera?) To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 20:05:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: molter@sofia.csl.sri.com (Marco Molteni), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190153.04838520@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Jul 06, 2000 07:30:21 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> This thread is as silly now as it was the first time it came up. > > > >Please, please, put this in the fortune database :-) > > Or should we wait until threads work better? ;-) > > Seriously, though, it appears that certain folks are in denial about > the negative results of emulating another platform, even though they > are being demonstrated again and again. SCO is currently in the proces of marginalizing themselves this way; I think many in the SCO management have realized this, but are unable to stuff the genie back into the bottle. It is probably too late for SCO, at this point. I rather expect that, if they can get the necessary sign-off from people whom they have licensed code from (Microsoft, Veritas, Novell, etc.), that SCO will be Open-Sourcing SVR4 in the not too distant future. Yes, this is a rumor, but I rather trust the source_s_... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message