[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <69202524-5c1a-425b-9896-f72ebd404171 at l5g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,
	johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
> 
> The other thing to note is that at least one reasonably recent SPARC
> chip design is released under GPL,

How does one "copyright" hardware?  I thought that was what patents
were for. I can't even begin to imagine how you could apply the GPL
to a CPU design.  This whole GPL thing just gets sillier every day.

bill

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