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- From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Message-ID: <6dWM02Mp2bpe01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:23:52 GMT
- References: <kzin.721442926@cc.gatech.edu> <BxLz6x.EL7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov16.075931@eklektix.com>
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- In article <1992Nov16.075931@eklektix.com>, rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick
- Dunn) writes:
-
- > >...So, without someone to carry that torch, BSD will slowly die.
- >
- > On the face of it, it's true--**IF** nobody picks up the torch from
- > CSRG,
- > BSD will die. But that's an "if pigs had wings" argument...the issue
- > is
- > not whether there is someone to pick up the torch, but which of the
- > several
- > possibilities will be the one to carry it.
-
- Actually, the issue is what the user community *believes* is going to happen.
- Significant damage has already been done (CSRG dropping the project without
- another group already signed up to support it). Few businesses, would purchase
- an O/S with such an uncertain future, no matter how good it is. BSDI and
- 386bsd will keep BSD alive in the academic world as O/S learning tools,
- but as a commercial product, BSD *is* definitely dying.
-
- My understanding is that, many of BSD's contributions to Unix have been
- adopted in whole or in part into the SysVr4 O/S (where it has not conflicted
- with POSIX or SysVr3). So in a sense, BSD lives on.
-
- --
- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
- | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
- | what is wrong with it.
-