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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!uunet!news.sandia.gov!somnet.sandia.gov!elam.mdl.sandia.gov!aflundi From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Subject: Re: ffs & sunos? Message-ID: <1994Nov21.202558.16722@sandia.gov> Sender: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Reply-To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM References: <3ahflh$og3@spruce.cic.net> <scottr-1811941644050001@sarmac.acs.nmu.edu> <3alvli$ssg@fido.asd.sgi.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 20:25:58 GMT Lines: 31 In article <3alvli$ssg@fido.asd.sgi.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote: > >Before I left Sun I spent about 4 months in a very active campaign to get >them to do this. I was meeting with the top folks pretty regularly, >trying to get them to realize that they were throwing away the good >stuff. > >You can read all about it, I wrote a paper or two on the subject, send >mail to archives@slovax.engr.sgi.com with the word "freeos.ps" in the >body - it will send you back the postscript. Check out the list of As already point out, not the body, but the Subject: line. >people that blessed the idea, it is a veritable who's who of the Unix >world. > >Sun didn't go for it and I left. They did do one thing that I suggested, >which was to buy out rights to Unix. If they wanted to, they could still >solidify the market and make the source available. > [ ... ] Cool idea and paper. Too bad Sun didn't see the light, perhaps someone else will. (How about SGI, Larry?) I think I'll send a copy to my local Sun office and let them know that at least one former Sun employee was in touch. --alan -- Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>