> On Sun, 31 May 1998, David Gould wrote:
>
> > As you may have noticed, I am something of a Linux advocate. And, quite
> > seriously, I believe it possible that in five years not even Sun will be
> > shipping anything else.
>
> That must be why Sun is currently paying for developers to port
> FreeBSD over to the Sparc architecture, eh? *grin*
>
> And, ya, I am serious...one of the developers on the FreeBSD
> mailing lists is contracted to Sun MicroSystems to get a FreeBSD port off
> the ground...
Thats great. Any victory for freed software is a victory for freed software!
Btw, Sun has also apparently just paid to join Linux International.
So maybe in five years Sun will be shipping either FreeBSD or Linux. ;-)
-dg
David Gould dg@illustra.com 510.628.3783 or 510.305.9468
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