[TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX?

[wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish)]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 03:41, Michael Kerpan wrote:
> As I said, IRIX itself is nothing but an obsolete kernel. It might be
> cool for preservation purposes to have the code (and that's what TUHS
> is all about) 
<snip> 

And that's what I for one want to see.  The more Un*x branches we have in 
preservation for study purposes, the less chance a software pirate like The 
Societe Commercial du Ondit (The Rumormongers Company) Group has of 
succeeding in meritless law suits.

I think someone should ask Novell to consider declaring the Un*x SySVRx source 
tree available under the GPL or some such license.  And releasing OSF/1 and 
such SVRx derivatives from requiring a Un*x source code license, if they want 
to release their ancient source trees for preservation purposes.

It would be a fitting end to the AT&T Un*x role in computer science history.

Wesley Parish
>
> On 11/26/06, Paul Duffy <dubhthach at compsoc.nuigalway.ie> wrote:
> > Highly unlikely. After all they didn't buy out their Unix license like
> > Sun did. IRIX has been basically abandoned by SGI which is a pity.
> > However their is quite an IRIX user community at Nekochan with 1500
> > members on the forums: http://forums.nekochan.net/index.php
> >
> > Nekoware as it called is probably the best repositry of
> > freeware/opensource software out their for IRIX these days. Even SGI's
> > own freeware site points to them.
> >
> > -Paul
> >
> > "There is no greater sorrow then to remember times of happiness when
> > miserable" -- Dante "The Inferno"
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Lord Doomicus wrote:
> > > Since SGI is EOL'ing IRIX at the end of the year, has anyone asked them
> > > if they would donate it's source ( under some sort of OSI license of
> > > course ) to the UNIX archive?
> > >
> > > Or is there too much SysV code in it?
> > >
> > > It would be cool to have easy access to the older IRIX versions for
> > > older SGI hardware.
> > >
> > > - Derrik
> > >
> > > Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
> > > lorddoomicus at mac.com
> > > http://www.doomd.net
> > >
> > > ...  I am using an Apple Macintosh to design the Cray-3 supercomputer. 
> > > -- Seymour Cray, 1986
> >
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