From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 13:42:06 +1200 (NZST) Subject: [TUHS] Bell Labs Holmdel site coming down In-Reply-To: <20060517231329.GF13940@ccil.org> References: <20060517231329.GF13940@ccil.org> Message-ID: <1147916526.446bd0ee65cc6@www.paradise.net.nz> Quoting John Cowan : > Stuart, Jon scripsit: > > > Perhaps an OSF1-"lite", on par with 4.4BSD-Lite which had the > > copyrighted code removed, would be possible to get released. > > That was only possible because of the massive effort to rewrite all > things > AT&T out of the BSD source. I'm wondering if it wouldn't be possible to talk Novell into releasing the Unix SysVr* source code under some form of BSD/MIT X license following the coming evaporation of Societe Commerciel du Ondit - the SCOGroup Rumourmonging Machine. Then get OSF1-"lite" released following that. Eating an elephant - one bite at a time. Wesley Parish > > -- > John Cowan cowan at ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan > If he has seen farther than others, > it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves. > --Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted) > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuh s > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press