[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

Wed Apr 22 21:40:07 EDT 2009

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

Read:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparc#Open_source_implementations

Arne