[geeks] RE: SPARC proprietary

[Gavin Hubbard]

Doh. I'm Sorry about the repetition of ideas in my email - I didn't read the
previous digest before replying.

Regards,

Gavin


> > > I thought the SPARC architecture was not proprietary?
> >
> > Anything non-x86 is 'proprietary' to mainstream media.  Just like
> > 'hackers' are the bad guys, DSL is 'broadband', Windows servers
> > implement 'open standards', and 64-bit computing is 'on the horizon'.
>
> Heh. Tell that to the OpenBSD developers who cannot get access to
> US III documentation through Sun because they won't sign an NDA.
>
> SPARC is an open standard. UltraSPARC is a proprietary architecture.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gavin