From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6798 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2023 18:59:03 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 18 Jan 2023 18:59:03 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CCBC423FB; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:58:56 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minun.buric.co (minun.buric.co [51.15.8.196]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD2B423EF for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:58:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minun.buric.co (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1C5D735C0D67; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:58:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minun.buric.co (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC5135C0C07 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:58:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:58:40 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Nickolas X-X-Sender: mary@sd-119843.dedibox.fr To: tuhs@tuhs.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <202301180943.30I9hrOw030485@freefriends.org> <202301181513.30IFDDUJ015224@freefriends.org> <20230118151446.GD2964@mcvoy.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID-Hash: XLADXMPOAWD6HHHQGORBOZHMCMSMU2CA X-Message-ID-Hash: XLADXMPOAWD6HHHQGORBOZHMCMSMU2CA X-MailFrom: usotsuki@buric.co X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Wed, 18 Jan 2023, segaloco via TUHS wrote: > I just hope we'll see some attempts at opening up these code bases as > time goes on. Seeing as they're no longer going to be pushing new > copies and will eventually ramp down maintenance releases, opening up > the source would give their end users the ability to potentially float > their own improvements if they can't immediately migrate to Linux or > BSD. That said, security implications of course, don't want to just > hand bad actors a code base to comb for memory unsafety in. Certainly the stuff I've been currently working on would be made even more irrelevant if a complete System V were made available under a license more like BSD than CDDL. -uso.