From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Dec 13 22:54:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12297 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:54:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12262 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:54:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14861; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:52:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3674B5B9.A2C53340@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:52:41 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Nielsen CC: Greg Lehey , John Birrell , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message