From owner-freebsd-platforms Thu Dec 18 03:51:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA11867 for platforms-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 03:51:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA11854 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 03:51:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00734; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 06:50:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199712181150.GAA00734@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: platforms question In-Reply-To: <199712180917.BAA23701@super.zippo.com> from Francisco Reyes at "Dec 18, 97 04:17:13 am" To: reyesf@super.zippo.com Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 06:50:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: uwp@ukrv.de, freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Francisco Reyes said: > On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 10:05:59 +0100 (MET), Udo Wolter wrote: > > >Do you mean, Sun will develop an own implementation of FreeBSD ? Back to > >SunOS again (yes, PLEASE ! Solaris sucks...) ? Will they sell it ? > > > >Any more Infos ? > > > I don't think the BSD license will allow Sun to "own" the port. > Besides this Sun division doesn't care (harware division) about > making money on the software they want to sale more Sparcs. My take > once the port is up to a reasonable state that it will be back to the > volunteers. > Actually, I think that Sun could theoretically grab it and hide it away (paraphrasing our GPL friends.) They won't though, due to Sun Microelectronics not being in the OS business. They want to sell chips. The freer the OS, the cheaper the price to use the chips. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.