19 May
2006
19 May
'06
10:28 a.m.
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Larry McVoy wrote:
Tim wrote:
The idea is not unlike what I am hoping to be able to do, that is, make a
system as close to "real" Unix as possible, and fully open-source /
copyleft, where Linux really isn't "it", BSD is closer to this goal, and
indeed NetBSD + Heirloom Toolchest is where I would start. I'd like to
see a system, and hell, if I could I'd implement it myself. One that felt
so like commercial Unix that you couldn't tell the difference unless you
ran uname. And had needed functionality without being uber-bloated like
GNU.
-uso.
A good example would probably be SunOS 4 - we
already know that Sun are
quite interested in open sourcing stuff given OpenSolaris, but SunOS 4
hasn't been, presumably because it is full of stuff-they-don't-own and has
no commercial value at all.
I'm the guy who took SunOS 4.1.3 and removed all the non-free stuff from it
(which was 90% STREAMS) and demo-ed it to McNealy in effort to set it free.
A lot went into this: http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/srcos.html