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Alan Baker

BSD didn't start with BSD 4.2, you nut case. Why the fsck would you mangle what I said into that?

"Spearheaded by graduate student Bill Joy, who went on to co-found Sun Microsystems, Fabry's students spent infinite hours tricking out Thompson and Ritchie's original code with new features. (Coincidentally, Thompson returned to Berkeley that same year as a visiting professor on sabbatical from Bell Labs.) "

"Early in 1977, responding to requests for copies of their tricked-out version of the operating system, Joy released Berkeley UNIX under the official moniker BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution). While Joy charged a small fee for copies of BSD, it was essentially available to anyone who wanted it, enabling a world of hackers to improve on his group's improvements. Those upgrades were then filtered by Joy and his team for incorporation into future releases. This revolutionary paradigm in software distribution is now known as Open Source - the source code, the raw programming behind the software, is accessible for anyone to build upon and change. "

"Almost immediately, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency became BSD buffs, enabling Fabry to negotiate the funding of additional research and the formation of the Computer Science Research Group at the University. One of the CSRG's tasks was outfitting BSD with a way for BSD-running computers to talk with each other over ARPANET, the governmental predecessor to the Internet. Rising to the occasion, Bill Joy created an elegant framework for how Arpanet computers could interconnect and integrated the TCP-IP protocol, the lingua franca of today's Internet, into Berkeley UNIX."

So let's count some of the ways you were WRONG.

1. Bill Joy didn't buy BSD from someone else.

2. His employer didn't have the rights to BSD Unix before he co-founded Sun.

3. He wasn't even employed at the time he wrote BSD Unix, he was a student.

4. The University he attended while he wrote BSD Unix didn't have the rights to it either.

5. Solaris is Sun OS under a new name.

No they don't. You looked at the price of a computer that came with more hardware and buttumed (without checking your facts) that the higher price was for installing Solaris.

You're lying... again!

Alan Baker: "Second, you pay $1,095 for the model that has Solaris pre-installed. "

Alan Baker: "That's $350 to get the OS. "

Josh McKee : "It's $350 for an additional 200MHz, 512MB of RAM, a hard disk, and the OS pre-installed."

You think that's something to laugh about? Think about you claiming it costs $350 to get an OS pre-installed that Sun gives away for free...

-- What would that topic be? R'lyeh? Are you now claiming that R'lyeh isn't a sunken city because that would go against your holy belief in the non-existance sic of Global Warming? -- Lars TrSger June 25, 2006