[TUHS] UNIX System V Release 2.2 gdts Vax-780
Steve Nickolas
usotsuki at buric.co
Thu Mar 16 07:46:13 AEST 2023
On Wed, 15 Mar 2023, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 5:22 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there any market for System V at this point?
>
> Unlikely, but ... companies are funny about IP rights. A number of us
> are working on a more general solution that if we can identify the holders
> of the System V IP might help solve this issue. As my father you to say,
> "make haste ... slowly."
> ᐧ
>
Certainly if the whole issue could be cleared up favorably, like 3-clause
or even GNU, my rewrite would be less necessary to me and I could just
clean up the code that already exists.
Rewriting ls(1) is major yikes on trikes.
-uso.
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