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SO and all that
And another thread-subject change :)
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 09:17:29PM +0000, Al Hudson wrote:
> > I'm fairly certain SO5.1 is free for commercial use too, sun were even
> > considering opening the src code up. As understand they intend making no
> > money from sales of this s/w at all, it's entirely there to piss the hell out
> > of MS. Plust the fact that now solaris+SO is a viable alternative to
> > MS+Office.
One would think this way when they interviewed the Sun bloke in
Newsnight the day win2k was released ("Sun's OS running on Sun's
hardware is perfectly useable". The M$ guy was even better: "We do
software, that's the only thing we know how to do properly" and all
that)
> I think you're right on the first two counts, although I think they would
> probably SCSL SO if they ever released the source. And yep, they do seem
From their website:
* Dot-Com Development Model: Community-based development with
open-standard file formats, APIs, protocols, and the Java(TM)
platform; source code available (in the near future)
via Sun Community Source Licensing.
Sorry about the dot-com bit, but it is on the website... groan...
> to take particular delight in pissing off MS. Although, they also had this
> wierd idea of 'dot-comming' SO, so that you could surf into it over the
> 'net or something. Seemed like a really dotty idea at the time, so who
> knows what they'll do..
Apparently, the idea is called SO-portal (or star portal) if I'm
not too mistaken, but it'd basically be a version of SO in Java, so that
you can launch it off your fave browser. How they will accomplish this,
when even in a decent PC with linux and a fair amount of memory it's
sluggish at best... Just imagine the extra burden of bandwidth and all
that (all that meaning Java).
Right, it's decided, I'm gonna implement \TeX on java, together
with XEmacs and AucTex, and become rich and famous X-)
Definitely I need some food now :)
José
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José L Gómez Dans PhD student
Radar & Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK
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