7 Jan
2017
7 Jan
'17
9:12 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 01:58:29PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Friday, 6 January 2017 at 9:27:36 -0500, Clem
Cole wrote:
Yup. Instead of the splintering we have had with *BSD, I think it would
have drawn everyone in to work on that OS.
I have regrets in my life. Not getting SunOS out there as open source
is one of the big ones. I fought for it, perhaps harder than anyone
else. Which perhaps makes me the bigger loser since I didn't win.
The world would be a better place if that had happened. Linux is fine
but it lacks what SunOS had.
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.