14 Jul
2021
14 Jul
'21
11:50 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 01:40:53PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
If you must, you could try to claim that AT&T was
"Source Available"
--- which is a terminology I've seen some used. But I think your
assumptions of how easily the AT&T License could be obtained, and how
"anyone who wanted it could get it" may be looking at the past with
rose-colored classes.
Clem was in "the club". I do remember those times, barely, I was a
bit too young to have a clear view of things. But it certainly
seemed like some Universities made the source pretty available.
UW Madison was not one of those, I had to beg and plead to get
access to the source.
So Clem's memory is fine, his experience was you could get the source.
But that wasn't the universal experience at all, and I agree with
Ted that just getting access to the source doesn't make it remotely
open source.