7 Jan
2017
7 Jan
'17
9:09 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
On Friday, 6 January 2017 at 9:27:36 -0500, Clem
Cole wrote:
With the right license (BSD), I'd go so far as to saying there'd be no
BSD 4.4, or if there was, it would have been rebased from the SunOS
base... There were discussions between CSRG and Sun about Sun donating
it's reworked VM and VFS to Berkeley to replace the Mach VM that was
in there... Don't know the scope of these talks, or if they included
any of the dozens of other areas that Sun improved from its BSD 4.3
base... The talks fell apart over the value of the code, if the rumors
I've heard are correct.
Warner
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Dan Cross
<crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think that if SunOS 4 had been released to the world at the right
time, the free BSDs wouldn't have happened in the way they did either;
they would have evolved intimately coupled with SunOS. Perhaps an interesting area of speculation is,
"what would the world have
looked like if USL v BSDi hadn't happened *and* SunOS was opened to the
world?" I think in that parallel universe, Linux wouldn't have made it
particularly far: absent the legal angle, what would the incentive had been
to work on something that was striving to basically be Unix, when really
good Unix was already available?
> I agree.