From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 21 00:21:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA10990 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA10955 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA08215 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:21:05 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA28566 for chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:21:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA20913 for chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:00:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608210700.JAA20913@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: http://www3.sco.com/Company/Announce/p081996e.htm To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:00:00 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at "Aug 21, 96 01:33:18 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > From the last time I used SCO...why would anyone want it, when > there are *better* (IMHO!) Unix variants out like FreeBSD and NetBSD > that have always been free...? Well, this is nevertheless an interesting action, and perhaps the only right thing they can do, now being faced with MicroSnot everywhere... (and good-quality free Unix clones). I'm surprised that the offer even includes a development system, something where UNIX vendors always believed they had to divorce it from the main system, and could make big bucks out of it. Note that they are also announcing Unixware, which is quite a more modern variant than their ancient Openserver SVR3.2 technology. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)