From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com (Michael Kerpan) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:17:43 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX? In-Reply-To: <200611282012.58681.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> References: <57FF0370-6EC5-4282-BCB2-06DD34C3C2B1@mac.com> <8dd2d95c0611270641v289bf26ag9bbd2b5310b9fc60@mail.gmail.com> <200611282012.58681.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: <8dd2d95c0611280517y7644e8f5x9249b1861be6a161@mail.gmail.com> That would never happen as it's SCO, not Novell, that owns System V and SCO is a M$-funded anti-open source crusader. On 11/28/06, Wesley Parish wrote: > 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