How quickly we forget... Many parts of what we call the Berkeley Software Distribution was written or maintained by people who were or became Sun employees, and much of what was delivered in SunOS 3.x (and somewhat in 4.x) was contributed directly back into the BSD4.1/4.2 sources. At that point in time, SunOS was effectively a community driven distro of BSD, albeit all wrapped up under the constraint that "we all must have AT&T Unix source licenses in order to share source code among ourselves".
It wasn't until Berkeley's CSRG started to disband and and Sun & AT&T got together in the late '80s that this bidirectional sharing dried up, Net/1 and Net/2 begat 386BSD and BSDi, which, in turn begat NetBSD and FreeBSD... Many of us Sun old-timers consider the OpenSolaris effort to be simply coming full circle back to our roots; sorry about that long detour along the way :-) -John Plocher ---- Early Sun history: http://www.softpanorama.org/Solaris/solaris_history.shtml UNIX License Plates: http://www.unix.org/license-plate.html Robert W. Fuller wrote:
I feel compelled to point out that this is exactly what Sun did with the older BSD UNIX version of SunOS. They took the Berkeley code and closed it. Eventually, Sun migrated to System V.
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