From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 21 09:38:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA17668 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:38:58 -0700 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA17661 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:38:55 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA02202; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 10:41:00 -0600 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 10:41:00 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199509211641.KAA02202@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO owns UNIX now? In-Reply-To: <18883.811697224@time.cdrom.com> References: <18883.811697224@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Just FYI, on the news wires this afternoon was an article > > saying Novell was selling all of the UNIX "property" to SCO. > > Interesting little twist... > > Yes indeed. I am at USENIX right now and am currently talking with > some of the SCO folks on what their plans for all this are. A > promising sign is that they are actually _enthusiastic_ about the > prospect of SCO binary emulation in FreeBSD and I am seeing if I can't > possibly convince them to be even more supportive than that, like > maybe providing a little technical assistance for making it work a lot > better than it does now - both now and for their next product. How about making things like SCO shlibs available? That would be *way* too cool for us. There is a version of libc_s available, but we don't have the libnsl_s library necessary for many applications. Nate