From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (Lyrical Nanoha) Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 00:28:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: <20060519023529.GD17801@bitmover.com> References: <20060519023529.GD17801@bitmover.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 18 May 2006, Larry McVoy wrote: > Tim wrote: >> A good example would probably be SunOS 4 - we already know that Sun are >> quite interested in open sourcing stuff given OpenSolaris, but SunOS 4 >> hasn't been, presumably because it is full of stuff-they-don't-own and has >> no commercial value at all. > > I'm the guy who took SunOS 4.1.3 and removed all the non-free stuff from it > (which was 90% STREAMS) and demo-ed it to McNealy in effort to set it free. > A lot went into this: http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/srcos.html The idea is not unlike what I am hoping to be able to do, that is, make a system as close to "real" Unix as possible, and fully open-source / copyleft, where Linux really isn't "it", BSD is closer to this goal, and indeed NetBSD + Heirloom Toolchest is where I would start. I'd like to see a system, and hell, if I could I'd implement it myself. One that felt so like commercial Unix that you couldn't tell the difference unless you ran uname. And had needed functionality without being uber-bloated like GNU. -uso.