From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>, Josh Good <pepe@naleco.com>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SCO marketing FreeBSD (was: Micnet, Was: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!)
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 21:02:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfqZKWb1J11+vZ9uH=S1XcmE0O1DTNa_XMBPo9tTge=pKg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 8:44 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
wrote:
> The Wikipedia article isn’t bad:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenServer
>
> The only first hand info I can add is the money guy passed away a couple
> years ago, which probably put things into limbo and I’m not sure who is at
> the helm of Xinuos now. When I last talked to their engineering director
> they had non-trivial revenue supporting the old products, enough to run
> several product development engineers apart from whatever else it took to
> keep the lights on.
>
I'd love to hear more recent news...
Warner
Ps I sent off a message to the FreeBSD developer list to see any one there
knows. Hope I'm not stepping on any toes...
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 7:38 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 20 March 2021 at 18:42:50 -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:
>> > SCO is still around in some form. ... They also shipped a version
>> > of FreeBSD 10 commercially a handful of years ago.
>>
>> They did? Do you have details? From the version number it sounds as
>> if it must have been at a time when most people already thought they
>> were dead.
>>
>> Greg
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-18 9:44 [TUHS] Micnet Was: Re: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse! Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2021-03-18 11:27 ` Mike Knell via TUHS
2021-03-18 12:04 ` Jim Capp
2021-03-20 11:50 ` Josh Good
2021-03-20 15:16 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-21 0:08 ` Wesley Parish
2021-03-21 0:18 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-21 1:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-21 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-21 1:42 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-03-21 2:38 ` [TUHS] SCO marketing FreeBSD (was: Micnet, Was: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-21 2:43 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-03-21 3:02 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2021-03-21 3:04 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-21 3:09 ` Warner Losh
2021-03-21 6:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-21 11:01 ` Harald Arnesen
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