14 Jul
2021
14 Jul
'21
12:39 p.m.
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
Michael Kjörling <michael(a)kjorling.se> writes:
The original Minix wasn't so open source. It was certainly not GPL'ed
or BSD/MIT licensed. Also, Tannenbaum had no interest in coordinating
distributed development of Minix into a production-worthy system.
I don't want to rehash all of that here, but I certainly would not
have listed the original Minix as Free Software / Open Source.
My two cents,
Arnold
[...] one might even be able to argue that the
early UNIX systems were
also, in a sense, open source.
Ditto MINIX, of course, which was released, along with the book, in 1987.