[TUHS] SunOS vs Linux

[grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)]

On Friday,  6 January 2017 at  9:27:36 -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.

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.

Greg
--
Sent from my desktop computer.
Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key.
See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
This message is digitally signed.  If your Microsoft mail program
reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 163 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170107/5bfa9321/attachment.sig>