Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Unbundling (was Re: Open Software Foundation) Message-ID: <55018@sun.uucp> Date: 1 Jun 88 05:58:43 GMT References: <14976@brl-adm.ARPA> <54822@sun.uucp> <1215@maccs.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 14 > So just why was Pascal and FORTRAN unbundled? I hope you're not asking me; I specifically stated that I didn't know the reason. > I understand from a marketing standpoint the benefits of unbundling these > languages but what is happening to your Berkeley origins? BSD has EFL and "msgs", we don't. It's not an issue of "Berkeley origins". > Even things as sacred as games have been pruned :-( That was for tape space reasons (putting the games on would have required an extra tape in one of the distribution formats). "Fixed in 4.0".