17 Jul
2021
17 Jul
'21
6:37 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 08:30:56AM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
I seem to remember, relatively shortly after that, a tendency on the net
to differentiate between "open source" and "Open Source". Earlier
in
this thread, I mentioned MINIX 1, from 1987. That version of the OS was
open source, but not, by the later definition, Open Source.
(Prentice-Hall, being a publishing company, insisted on having the
copyright, but the source code was printed in the book, and you could
order it on floppies or tape for $80.)
Can you provide any references? A quick Google Search doesn't turn up
what you've described. Instead there are references such as this:
"What you will find here is the contents of the last Minix 1 and 2
releases, 1.7.5 and 2.0.4...
You won't find all the source here, because Minix came with most
source, but not all; the C compiler is ACKPACK, a special version
of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, carefully cut down and modified to
run on Minix. Back when this was released, this wasn't open source."
- https://github.com/davidgiven/minix2
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.
- Ted