Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!dan
From: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Open Software Foundation
Message-ID: <1215@maccs.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 88 17:46:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.1215
Posted: Tue May 31 13:46:07 1988
References: <14976@brl-adm.ARPA> <54822@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <54822@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>> 	God, I just hope this desease doesn't spread to Sun!
>> 
>> Perhaps it has. Pascal and Fortran have been unbundled, but that's okay,
>> as nobody uses them anyway :-)
>
>Note: the unbundling of Pascal and FORTRAN was in no way prompted by any action
>on the part of AT&T.  AT&T doesn't run Sun, or dictate its software marketing
>policies (except to the extent that their licenses do so).  We have no
>expectation that they will do so in the future.

So just why was Pascal and FORTRAN unbundled? I understand from a marketing
standpoint the benefits of unbundling these languages but what is happening
to your Berkeley origins? Even things as sacred as games have been pruned :-(
What is next? UUCP? Mail? Csh? [NT]roff? or dare I say C?
[Yes I know only the Csh is Berkeley. Substitute your favorite BSD utilities]

Wait for the Sun 5 series. Kernel in ROM and a lot of empty disk :-)
Sure Unix only costs me $500.00 but it would be nice to have a few commands.

Dan Trottier
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