17 Jul
2021
17 Jul
'21
7:30 p.m.
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso(a)mit.edu> writes:
Can you provide any references? A quick Google Search
doesn't turn up
what you've described.
I was paraphrasing what Andy Tanenbaum says near the beginning of every
talk of his on MINIX 3 I've seen on Youtube. But yeah, you're right:
while MINIX was open source, the C compiler was not, and was supplied in
binary form only.
I can imagine marketing folks trying to confuse people
by trying to
claim that their product was something it was not --- such as from
Prentice Hall, the publisher of the Minix book.
I can't imagine them using the term "open source", either. :)
-tih
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