9 Apr
2025
9 Apr
'25
9:52 p.m.
For completeness,
SUN & AT&T merged their lines, at least Userland, with SVR4,
with, I believe, SUN paying a perpetual fee for its license.
[ refs only for the merge, not license deal ]
TUHS, Larry McVoy
<https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-January/009495.html>
Excerpt from Solaris 8 System Admin Manual, 2000
Bill Calkins, ‘History of Solaris'
<https://cse.unl.edu/~witty/class/csce351/howto/history_of_solaris.pdf>
Calkins makes the point the merge was to resolve the “Unix Wars”, to have one product
going up against Windows NT.
"UNIX is plural. It is not one operating system but, many implementations of
an idea that originated in 1965."
On 10 Apr 2025, at 03:10, Lyndon Nerenberg
(VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
At some point Sun bought out their license from AT&T. My guess is
it was pre-Solaris 9, as that buyout was what let them start offering
up Solaris 9 source code on an experimental basis, and then fully
unleashing it with the Solaris 10 release.
As Warren mentions, others might have done the same, but I
have no knowledge of any deals other than Sun's.
--lyndon
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