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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!panix!ddsw1!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Where do we go from here? Date: 22 Apr 1994 23:27:55 GMT Organization: ETEXT Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2p9mhr$eih@spruce.cic.net> References: <2p9fur$kin@zenos.physci.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net In article <2p9fur$kin@zenos.physci.psu.edu>, Dan Cross <tenser@zenos.physci.psu.edu> wrote: >Now that the UCB has stopped working on BSD, bell labs has discontinued work >on the 10th edition research UNIX, and Novell has bought USL, who is going to >keep UNIX alive? NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDI, and OSF, IMO. I add OSF since the OSF1 operating system seems to be tolerable, but obviously if you're looking for full source, they have to be left out as cost-prohibitive. I think we should also *not* discount the continued efforts of the BSD old school; Eric Allman and Keith Bostic deserve credit for keeping some pieces alive while the rest is being dropped. I hope it can be worth their while to keep it up. > (heh, sorry if this sounds morbid...) Anyway, how is UNIX >going to keep being advanced if no one but commercial vendors are working on >it? Given that BSDI offers full source and the whole thing is priced reasonably, I think there's hope for both commercial and non-commercial torch-bearers. Their future qualification, I think, will rely on expansion beyond i386-PC architectures, but that appears to be in the works, so... BSDI also appears to be developing as a home for former CSRG programmers and other unrelated but experienced BSD programmers where they can continue to do the work they want and get paid for it. -- pauls@cic.net