[TUHS] SCO marketing FreeBSD (was: Micnet, Was: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!)

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 9:04 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 20 March 2021 at 21:02:35 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 8:44 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The Wikipedia article isn???t bad:
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenServer
> >>
> >> The only first hand info I can add is the money guy passed away a couple
> >> years ago, which probably put things into limbo and I???m not sure who
> is at
> >> the helm of Xinuos now.  When I last talked to their engineering
> director
> >> they had non-trivial revenue supporting the old products, enough to run
> >> several product development engineers apart from whatever else it took
> to
> >> keep the lights on.
> >
> > I'd love to hear more recent news...
>
> So would I.  I wonder if they're still basing on FreeBSD 10.
>
> > Ps I sent off a message to the FreeBSD developer list to see any one
> > there knows. Hope I'm not stepping on any toes...
>
> You didn't exactly mention your sources.  Looks fine to me.
>

True. I couldn't recall if Kevin has a commit bit still or not.... if need
be, I'll send a follow up...

Warner

Greg
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