[TUHS] AIX moved into maintainance mode

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Thu Jan 19 04:58:40 AEST 2023


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.

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-uso.


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