Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!clsib21!blblbl!mipseast!rogerk From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (3) relationship to GNU & openness Message-ID: <371@mipseast.mips.COM> Date: 5 Jun 88 05:50:29 GMT References: <5412@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3166@pdn.UUCP> <3c3fdf1b.4bee@apollo.uucp> <1018@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <358@mipseast.mips.COM> <10344@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Reply-To: rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA Lines: 15 In article <10344@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell@hector (Eduardo Krell) writes: >In article <358@mipseast.mips.COM> rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes: >>Yes, but when it was started, AT&T wasn't an owner of Sun... >And it still isn't. AT&T owns a little over 7% of Sun's stocks. That can >hardly be called ownership. If it owns *one* share, then it is AN owner, which is what I said. 7% (plus, as I recal, a board seat) can have quite a bit of influence, especially when AT&T is contractually committed to being able to own 20%. -- Roger B.A. Klorese MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!rogerk 25 Burlington Mall Rd, Suite 300 rogerk@mips.COM Burlington, MA 01803 I don't think we're in toto any more, Kansas... +1 617 270-0613