21 May
2015
21 May
'15
9:09 p.m.
Diomidis Spinellis scripsit:
This leaves a long dark period between 32V and 2005.
It'd therefore
prefer to wait, until we can get System V and early versions of SunOS
available under some type of open source license.
It might be possible to get the vanilla-from-AT&T System V Releases 1-3
freely licensed, though Novell is presumably still making money from AIX,
which descends from SVR3. SVR4 has proprietary Microsoft (Xenix) and
SunOS (Oracle) code in it, plus being the ancestor of still-current HP/UX.
Scrubbing proprietary third-party code to make an open-source release
of any of these ancient versions, as had to be done for Solaris (and Java),
is almost certainly too much work for anyone to want to undertake today.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then, I contradict myself.
I am large, I contain multitudes.
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass