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On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 08:56:23AM +1100, steve jenkin wrote:
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> > On 16 Mar 2023, at 08:22, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Is there any market for System V at this point?  I would think it's 
> > Windows, MacOS, Linux and anything else is an also ran at this point.
> 
> Is this the right question, treating System V as commercial?

Yeah, if there are commercial users of that source base someone will
think there is money in and you might as well give up.  If there are
no commercial users of that source base, you have a chance that nobody
cares.