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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
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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>