[Info-vax] RSX-11, was: Re: Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <paul.nospam-B563A4.15371706112009 at pbook.sture.ch>,
	"P. Sture" <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> In article <hcuj9r$d30$1 at news.eternal-september.org>,
>  Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> 
>> On 2009-11-04, BillPedersen <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > The Mentec licensing issue is still in negotiation from information I
>> > have been able to obtain recently.  These licenses have NOT entered
>> > the public domain.  I can provide information to people who might be
>> > interested in commercial licenses on an interim basis as negotiations
>> > continue as to the final disposition of the intellectual property.
>> >
>> 
>> Thanks for the update; it's interesting to learn that final disposition
>> talks are actively in progress.
>> 
> 
> Agreed it's good to see it's not being left to rot, although I must add 
> that one product I used to work with ended up being owned by an 
> organisation which treated it as a cash cow. Originally developed using 
> funds from Esprit (or an earlier one I forget, but ISTR EEC funds were 
> involved), the licensing rights weren't owned by the company that 
> developed it, which led to pain later since the developers weren't free 
> to drop its price to meet market conditions.

I knew someone was talking with Mentec but haven't heard anything since
before I left the University for my latest jount with the Army.  I would
love to see all of it made available to interested people but how it ends
out being licensed will make a big difference.  Public Domain would be
nice, but unlikely.  A BSD style license would probably allow for the
most potential (and I have some rather interesting projects along thise
lines).  And if it ends out being another piece of Stallmanesque GPLed
crap, I guess my days of doing PDP-11's will be coming to an end unless
I decide to start writing my own OSes.

bill
 

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