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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 04:33:06PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 4:22 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> > So I've been down this path, it was STREAMS and RFS, and maybe a couple
> > of drivers.  I pulled all that crud out, put back the BSD tty code,
> > and I had a SunOS we could have given away.  It was back when I was
> > writing this:
> >
> > http://mcvoy.com/lm/bitmover/lm/papers/freeos.pdf
> >
> > and I needed to be able to show that what I was asking for was possible.
> 
> Good to know you think it was possible.   I know in the case of Ultrix and
> HP-UX lots of external folks licenses small things like Mentat, MIPS etc.

At this point, Linux has won, I don't think anyone would care if we got
the whole pile.

As Rob Gingell once said "Bits rot.  Unmaintained source quickly becomes
worthless".