From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [COFF] [TUHS] 386BSD released
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 10:50:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210714175053.GC15842@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YO8hpZ4VYln+QxNb@mit.edu>
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.
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2021-07-14 15:01 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-14 17:40 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-14 17:50 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-07-14 18:28 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-14 20:03 ` John Cowan
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2021-07-15 6:33 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-07-15 20:44 ` Derek Fawcus
2021-07-15 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-15 19:33 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-15 20:30 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16 1:58 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16 2:14 ` George Michaelson
2021-07-16 18:02 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-07-17 4:09 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-18 3:29 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-07-18 3:42 ` David Arnold
2021-07-18 4:01 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-07-19 13:41 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-19 14:50 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-19 17:38 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-19 19:33 ` John P. Linderman
2021-07-19 20:21 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-20 1:05 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-07-19 20:08 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-20 0:55 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-18 6:44 ` Andy Kosela
2021-07-16 16:11 ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-07-15 23:02 ` joe mcguckin
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