Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:11:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Alan Lundin <aflundi@lundin.abq.nm.us> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <199808121211.GAA29528@lundin.abq.nm.us.> In-Reply-To: Joerg Micheel <joerg@krdl.org.sg> "Re: solaris is free." (Aug 12, 5:12pm)
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On Aug 12, 5:12pm, Joerg Micheel wrote:
> Subject: Re: solaris is free.
>
> 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
^^^^^^^^^^
Opps! Larry McVoy
> 1990's to free SunOS source to prevent splitting of the R&D community into all
> these niches, but in vain.
He was trying to get Sun to adopt Linux and do the GPL/OpenSource
thing. He quit and went to SGI when Sun execs turned him down.
--alan
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