28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
7:17 p.m.
That would never happen as it's SCO, not Novell, that owns System V
and SCO is a M$-funded anti-open source crusader.
On 11/28/06, Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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