From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 05:12:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA20333 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 05:12:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kitsune.swcp.com (swcp.com [198.59.115.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20327 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 05:12:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aflundi@lundin.abq.nm.us) Received: from lundin.abq.nm.us. (lundin.abq.nm.us [198.59.115.228]) by kitsune.swcp.com (8.8.8/1.2.3) with ESMTP id GAA08805 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:12:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from aflundi@localhost) by lundin.abq.nm.us. (8.8.8/8.8.5) id GAA29528 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:11:33 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:11:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Alan Lundin Message-Id: <199808121211.GAA29528@lundin.abq.nm.us.> In-Reply-To: Joerg Micheel "Re: solaris is free." (Aug 12, 5:12pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message