From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: coff@minnie.tuhs.org, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Subject: Re: [COFF] 386BSD released
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:30:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m25yx92hlt.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YPLO9O9hC4gOJaNO@mit.edu> (Theodore Y. Ts'o's message of "Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:37:08 -0400")
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> Can you provide any references? A quick Google Search doesn't turn up
> what you've described.
I was paraphrasing what Andy Tanenbaum says near the beginning of every
talk of his on MINIX 3 I've seen on Youtube. But yeah, you're right:
while MINIX was open source, the C compiler was not, and was supplied in
binary form only.
> I can imagine marketing folks trying to confuse people by trying to
> claim that their product was something it was not --- such as from
> Prentice Hall, the publisher of the Minix book.
I can't imagine them using the term "open source", either. :)
-tih
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2021-07-15 6:33 ` [COFF] [TUHS] " 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
2021-07-17 6:30 ` [COFF] " Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF
2021-07-17 12:37 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-17 13:30 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF [this message]
2021-07-18 3:29 ` [COFF] [TUHS] " 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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