16 Mar
2017
16 Mar
'17
11:29 p.m.
Chet Ramey wrote:
On 3/15/17 4:27 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
I have copies of the old 8086/8088 PC Xenix. I don't know if SCO or
Microsoft even sold
the sources. My old boss ran very early Microsoft SCO on a PDP11.
Don't know if he had
sources.
Even working as a sysadmin for an AT&T oem of System V wouldn't get me
access to the source
through normal corporate means. Perhaps I could've bribed an engineer
with a Pizza to let me get
to his machine without a screen lock... but he'd have been risking his job.
Bill
--
Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now!
pechter-at-gmail.com http://xkcd.com/705/
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 03:45:24PM -0400, Clem
Cole wrote:
This is the same access vs. affordability
argument we're seeing played out
in other segments of US society.
I have access to a Porsche, as do thousands of others (some of whom choose
not to buy one), but I can't afford one.
SVR4 (aka UnixWare) was available for source -
the problem is many people
did like the price to see it. It was $100K. But the source was available
it was open and many, many of people with PC and had access to it, wrote
drivers for it etc.
That's a pretty peculiar definition of open. Which is
fine, I guess,
but you need to realize that that's open much like a high end country
club is open. It's open to the rich people, to the connected people,
everyone else is left out in the cold.