From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 02:22:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA26854 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 02:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nighthawk.iti.gov.sg (nighthawk.iti.gov.sg [192.122.131.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA26785 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 02:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joerg@krdl.org.sg) Received: (from mailer@localhost) by nighthawk.iti.gov.sg (8.6.11/8.6.11) id RAA29325; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:33:16 +0800 Received: from mailhub.iti.gov.sg(192.122.132.132) by nighthawk.iti.gov.sg via smap (V1.3) id sma029321; Wed Aug 12 17:33:06 1998 Received: (from joerg@localhost) by iti.gov.sg (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA12020; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:13:00 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <19980812171259.39906@krdl.org.sg> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:12:59 +0800 From: Joerg Micheel To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: Marc Slemko , Warner Losh , jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. References: <199808120750.BAA05604@harmony.village.org> <19980812014614.B16463@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980812014614.B16463@mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:46:14AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:46:14AM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > My guess is that Sun is beginning to feel the heat from FreeBSD and > Linux. Last time I looked very few people we running Solaris on X86. Mayby > they are starting to worry about all those older Sparc's running NetBSD. But too late. There was a proposal by Larry Wall back at the beginning of the 1990's to free SunOS source to prevent splitting of the R&D community into all these niches, but in vain. Still interesting reading, from a historical point of view. I need to see whether I still have the copy around somewhere. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: SingAREN Technology Center Phone: +65 7705577 Kent Ridge Digital Labs (pron: curdle) Fax: +65 7795966 11 Science Park Road Pager: +65 96016020 Singapore Science Park II Plan: Troubleshooting ATM 117685 Singapore Networks and Applications To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message