From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PWB vs Unix/TS
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:50:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MA3Ssd6QpuTv6uqZoWAQzE3H7wB5b7pLh=qTdnvRMK7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190911181101.GF3143@mcvoy.com>
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 2:11 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> The problem was that Sun was in financial hot water and AT&T wanted SVR4
> to be the industry standard. ... It would have been
> much better if Sun had licensed their source base to AT&T and then
> AT&T could have leveraged the industry standard.
I think those two statements say everything. Sun was not in a position to
negotiate and AT&T desperately wanted SVR4 to be the standard - I think it
was corporate pride. (which I also think was mixed up the BSDi/UCB case too
- if they had let it go it would have been a darned site smarter).
If AT&T could have swallowed and excepted somebody other than them having
the 'high order bit' it might have worked. As you say, leveraged the
industry standard. Instead is just added to the fighting.
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-09 6:25 Warner Losh
2019-09-09 6:36 ` arnold
2019-09-10 15:16 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 0:28 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-11 3:53 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-11 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 16:55 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was " Charles H Sauer
2019-09-12 19:31 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-09-12 20:59 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-12 21:09 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses - Series/1 NUXI Ronald Natalie
2019-09-12 21:31 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS Warner Losh
2019-09-12 22:30 ` jcs
2019-09-12 23:12 ` reed
2019-09-12 23:22 ` jcs
2019-09-12 23:29 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses Warren Toomey
2019-09-13 7:06 ` arnold
2019-09-13 8:30 ` SPC
2019-09-14 18:29 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-12 21:29 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS Charles H Sauer
2019-09-11 17:49 ` [TUHS] " Richard Salz
2019-09-11 17:52 ` ron
2019-09-11 21:44 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 18:11 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-11 18:18 ` Richard Salz
2019-09-11 18:54 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-11 21:05 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-11 21:34 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-11 21:57 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 22:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-09-11 21:59 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 21:50 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2019-09-11 22:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-12 3:43 ` [TUHS] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 4:20 ` George Michaelson
2019-09-12 4:31 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 13:44 ` Tony Finch
2019-09-13 4:11 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 5:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-13 8:00 ` Peter Jeremy
2019-09-13 15:23 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 21:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-12 4:28 ` [TUHS] SCCS Jon Forrest
2019-09-12 4:33 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 6:12 ` William Corcoran
2019-09-12 14:35 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-13 5:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-13 5:50 ` Bakul Shah
2019-09-12 16:45 ` Eric Allman
2019-09-12 17:29 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-12 17:47 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-13 8:12 ` emanuel stiebler
2019-09-13 21:11 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-13 21:17 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 21:48 ` Bakul Shah
2019-09-13 23:12 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-13 23:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-14 1:55 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 17:23 ` [TUHS] SCCS Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-16 20:31 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-17 17:57 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-18 8:48 ` Eric Allman
2019-09-18 17:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-12 20:07 ` Nemo
2019-09-11 16:05 ` [TUHS] PWB vs Unix/TS Paul Winalski
2019-09-11 17:14 ` ron
2019-09-14 0:44 ` [TUHS] a book (was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS) reed
2019-09-14 2:53 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-15 2:18 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-15 2:39 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-15 3:24 ` Adam Thornton
2019-09-14 22:46 ` Clem cole
2019-09-15 0:58 ` Adam Thornton
2019-09-15 3:30 ` Eric Allman
2019-09-15 4:21 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-15 5:17 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-15 20:14 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-15 20:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-15 20:12 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-15 21:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-15 23:27 ` Clem cole
2019-09-15 23:45 ` Richard Salz
2019-09-15 7:43 ` Andy Kosela
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