Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:52:41 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... Message-ID: <3674B5B9.A2C53340@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812121850400.338-100000@ender.sf.scient.com>
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Christopher Nielsen wrote:
>
> Sun recently had a reorg. There are no longer individual operating
> companies with a parent holding company. Sun is one big company again. I
> believe this may have been a contributing factor to the death of the
> initial UltraSPARC porting effort.
Perhaps, but they still have a division or group or whatever that sells
embedded SPARC hardware, which still needs embeddable operating systems.
Linux generally does not qualify, due to the GPL virus.
This may have had more to do with Sun buying Chorus than any doings with
Linux, but the timing looked awfully suspicious.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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