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- From: joeg@gagme.chi.il.us (joe grosch)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:00:00 GMT
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- Richard Warner (rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu) wrote:
- [...deleted for to save bandwidth...]
-
- : So, without someone to carry that torch, BSD will
- : slowly die. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- :
- A problem we are going to have to fix. That is unless you LIKE being under
- the thumb of AT&T.
-
- There are enough talented people on this net who will work on 386BSD and
- ports to other machines (In the last two days I've seen posts from people
- who have a Sun 3 and HP 3000 who want 386BSD on them because they are
- losing support) to keep it going. A example of good, "free" software
- supported by the net and not-for-profit orig. is Elm and GNU gcc.
-
- Sun considers gcc to be a threat to it's own C compiler. Witness the
- current issue of UNIX World (I think), there is an ad for Sun's C
- compiler. In the ad they list the statement, "We got the compiler for free"
- as being on of the three great lies in life. The other two being, "The
- check is in the mail" and "There are no bugs in the code". I have also
- heard horror stories from Sun sales people about gcc. Of course the
- stories are AFOAF type and the stories were almost word-for-word repeats
- from differnt sales people.
-
- Anybody in the Chicago or Minneapolis area (I live in Minneapolis and
- work in Chicago) who wants a copy of 386BSD, send me email and we'll
- swap tapes. Screw AT&T.
-
- Josef
- --
- Josef Grosch | It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town...
- joeg@gagme.chi.il.us | New Yorker by birth, Minnesotan by choice
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