28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
1:12 p.m.
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 03:41, Michael Kerpan wrote:
As I said, IRIX itself is nothing but an obsolete
kernel. It might be
cool for preservation purposes to have the code (and that's what TUHS
is all about)
<snip>
And that's what I for one want to see. The more Un*x branches we have in
preservation for study purposes, the less chance a software pirate like The
Societe Commercial du Ondit (The Rumormongers Company) Group has of
succeeding in meritless law suits.
I think someone should ask Novell to consider declaring the Un*x SySVRx source
tree available under the GPL or some such license. And releasing OSF/1 and
such SVRx derivatives from requiring a Un*x source code license, if they want
to release their ancient source trees for preservation purposes.
It would be a fitting end to the AT&T Un*x role in computer science history.
Wesley Parish
On 11/26/06, Paul Duffy <dubhthach(a)compsoc.nuigalway.ie> wrote:
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I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Highly unlikely. After all they didn't buy
out their Unix license like
Sun did. IRIX has been basically abandoned by SGI which is a pity.
However their is quite an IRIX user community at Nekochan with 1500
members on the forums: http://forums.nekochan.net/index.php
Nekoware as it called is probably the best repositry of
freeware/opensource software out their for IRIX these days. Even SGI's
own freeware site points to them.
-Paul
"There is no greater sorrow then to remember times of happiness when
miserable" -- Dante "The Inferno"
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Lord Doomicus wrote:
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year, has anyone asked them
if they would donate it's source ( under some sort of OSI license of
course ) to the UNIX archive?
Or is there too much SysV code in it?
It would be cool to have easy access to the older IRIX versions for
older SGI hardware.
- Derrik
Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
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