[COFF] 386BSD released

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 08:30:56AM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> 
> I seem to remember, relatively shortly after that, a tendency on the net
> to differentiate between "open source" and "Open Source".  Earlier in
> this thread, I mentioned MINIX 1, from 1987.  That version of the OS was
> open source, but not, by the later definition, Open Source.
> (Prentice-Hall, being a publishing company, insisted on having the
> copyright, but the source code was printed in the book, and you could
> order it on floppies or tape for $80.)

Can you provide any references?  A quick Google Search doesn't turn up
what you've described.  Instead there are references such as this:

   "What you will find here is the contents of the last Minix 1 and 2
   releases, 1.7.5 and 2.0.4...

   You won't find all the source here, because Minix came with most
   source, but not all; the C compiler is ACKPACK, a special version
   of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, carefully cut down and modified to
   run on Minix. Back when this was released, this wasn't open source."

   - https://github.com/davidgiven/minix2

I can imagine marketing folks trying to confuse people by trying to
claim that their product was something it was not --- such as from
Prentice Hall, the publisher of the Minix book. 

					- Ted