From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 8 17:45:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18241 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 17:45:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18229 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 17:45:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10242; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:45:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd010224; Sun Mar 8 18:45:10 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA12288; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:45:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803090145.SAA12288@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:45:06 +0000 (GMT) Cc: perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu, tlambert@primenet.com, dkelly@hiwaay.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803082011.MAA22595@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Mar 8, 98 12:11:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Actually, there was company dedicated with a product similar to wine > and they required just a little push which we didn't give them. > > Forgot which company it was however I am sure that Terry knows > who I am talking about . Willows. The problem with this product is that it's commercial, and targetted at big UNIX. The out of the box cost for FreeBSD + Willows would exceed the out of the box cost for Windows95. The governement is generally willing to give grants in order to support work that results in them not requiring sole-source justification documents on contracts. If you watched any of the hearings on C-SPAN, or saw Bill on Charlie Rose that night, trying to spin the monopoly issue, you'd think that maybe Bill himself would support an effort. ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message