A year ago I called novell asking for a sysv license... They had no idea what I was talking about...<br><br>Do you think it's either worth regressing sol10 to it's older state by chopping stuff out, or calling novel again?<br><br>I know I was lucky to get a hobbiest sysIII license back from old sco (lol is that even valid??????)<br><br>Unix got fun when it got more open, but now it feels like the lawyers are going to lock it all up again...<br><br><br><br><span style="font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif;"><br><br></span><span id="signature"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999;">-- Sent from my Palm Prē</div><br></span><span style="color:navy; font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif; "><hr align="left" style="width:75%">On Apr 1, 2010 8:39 PM, Larry McVoy &lt;lm@bitmover.com&gt; wrote: <br><br>For the record, I'd be a little careful with what you state here.
<br>I've been here for a while and there has been stuff flying by that 
<br>makes me cringe.
<br>
<br>I'd like Unix to be free too, see 
<br>
<br>	http://bitmover.com/lm/papers/srcos.html
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<br>but I also respect copyright and other IP laws.
<br>
<br>I'm somewhat alarmed by what's flying by.  Not from you, John, but others.
<br>Like it or not, those companies have rights.  And also for the record,
<br>I looked over the code in the SCO thing, and they were right IMHO.
<br>Just too stupid to prove it.
<br>
<br>On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:17:14PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
<br>&gt; Cyrille Lefevre scripsit:
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; the older (c) I found is 1984, but SVR1 seems to be born in 1983 !
<br>&gt; &gt; (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V say SVR2 is 1984)
<br>&gt; &gt; as far as I recall me, SVID1 is SVR2, not SVR1.
<br>&gt; &gt; (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVID say SVID1 is 1985)
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; In any case, the code is in a practical sense unencumbered due to the
<br>&gt; release of OpenSolaris, because it's embedded inside the OpenSolaris
<br>&gt; wrapper essentially unchanged.
<br>&gt; 
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<br>&gt; epical or dramatic?  If a man hacking in fury
<br>&gt; at a block of wood make there an image of a cow,
<br>&gt; is that image a work of art? If not, why not?               --Stephen Dedalus
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