From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 31 13:26:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FCB14C25 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:26:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01544; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:24:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:24:24 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: "Alton, Matthew" Cc: DL-ADM , "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: AIX going BSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Alton, Matthew wrote: > This lends credence to my lond-held hypothesis that all > commercial UNICES are secretly floating on 4.4BSD UNIX - > The OS that God runs on his PDP/11 up in Heaven. No > wonder they won't free up their source code. It'd be too > embarassing. You guys are showing snobbery, just as surely as the commercial world. You forget that BSD was proprietary software for years (only available if you had AT&T licenses) and it would be very difficult to find any Unix version at all (outside of that bought directly from AT&T) that didn't have some BSD code in it. That's been the situation for 15 years, and now you want to discover it? AIX is *not* doing anything at all outside the usual, and it would, in fact, be remarkable (and outside the expected norm) if you *didn't* find some BSD code in it. Why don't you go look at, oh, Hewlett Packard, or some other mainstream vendor? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message