Is the original SVR4 around somewhere (even if still considered trade
secret or copyrighted?)
I'm getting ready to have my collection of 9 track magtapes recovered,
(Sydex sounds very reasonable) and I find I have 5 AT&T SVR4 tapes among
them (all different, I think, but I won't know until I read them.) They
are labeled Proprietary and Copyright, and I claim no special rights to
them other than as an ex AT&T employee.
Is it worth recovering them?
Mary Ann
On 05/21/2015 11:04 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
I never took those kinds of notes. We certainly
talked about it and
we used to have know who had what at Locus since all of the majors
were our customers and we had to be very, very careful to not cross
pollinate. Sometimes we would do specific work in different offices,
just to make the firewall easier to manage. For instance the Ultrix
and Tru64 work we did for DEC, as well as the HP work was done in
Boston. Most of the IBM work was done in the LA office, and Intel
work was led in San Diego.
There was a time when I had the release schedules of DEC, IBM, HP and
Sun taped the wall behind my desk, because we had teams delivering
things to all 4 of them.
That said, if you talked to one of the UNIX press of the old days,
like the old "UNIXgram/X" folks, you could put together the
chronology. However, I don't know that any of that is on line anywhere
to search. But that would be the documentation I would look if I was
a lawyer trying to demonstrate who did what in what order. Some of
those folks are still around and writing, I saw something from Timothy
Pickering Morgan just yesterday talking about Linux and I see some of
the other names pop up in the blogs and journals at different times.
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Jacob Ritorto
<jacob.ritorto(a)gmail.com <mailto:jacob.ritorto@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com
<mailto:clemc@ccc.com>> wrote:
HP/UX is an SVR3 & OSF/1 ancester. Solaris is SVR4. In fact
it was the SVR4 license and deal between Sun and AT&T) that
forced the whole OSF creation. One of the "principles" of the
OSF was "Fair and Stable" license terms.
Which begs a question - since Solaris was SVR4 based and was
made freely available via OpenSolaris et al, does that not
make SVR4 open? I'm not a lawyer (nor play one on TV), but
it does seem like that sets some sort of precedent.
I hope not to hijack the thread, but those are interesting tidbits
of info, there, Clem. Are these strategic license moves
chronicled anywhere at the moment? It'd be interesting to read
exactly who sued whom, who asked for permission vs. who begged for
forgiveness, etc.
thx
jake
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