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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <16143@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 02:28:48 GMT
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- > So they get together, they say to Sun, (mind you this IS speculation
- >and nothing more),
-
- Absolutely.
-
- In fact, it's *COMPLETELY INCORRECT* speculation.
-
- I was at Sun when it happened, and was involved in the SVR4 project.
-
- The Sun/AT&T deal wasn't made because Sun needed to suck up to AT&T to
- get extra money. It was made because some people in Sun figured that
- the only way to break into the commercial marketplace was to get the
- magic "UNIX" and "System V" names stuck onto their OS. (Debate all you
- want whether that belief was true or not; it *is* true that the Sun
- executives in question made that argument.)
-
- And, as people have noted:
-
- 1) there wasn't any "BSD4.4 project" at the time;
-
- 2) BSD, at the time, was far from being free of AT&T code, and
- the BSD folks weren't pushing to make it so at that point;
-
- so no threat, of the sort you describe, to AT&T's royalties existed at
- that point.
-