>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 :-)
Even people who have been at Sun a short time, like me, think so. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
