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(a)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".