From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:12:58 +1300 Subject: [TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX? In-Reply-To: <8dd2d95c0611270641v289bf26ag9bbd2b5310b9fc60@mail.gmail.com> References: <57FF0370-6EC5-4282-BCB2-06DD34C3C2B1@mac.com> <8dd2d95c0611270641v289bf26ag9bbd2b5310b9fc60@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200611282012.58681.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> 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) 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 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TUHS mailing list > > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.