[Info-vax] DECnet for Solaris

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

(snip)
> I believe that DEC/Compaq/H-P now owns the rights to DECnet.  The last 
> time I heard, DECnet required a license that the user must pay for.  In 
> many cases, purchase of a new computer system included the cost of 
> software licenses.

If it was patented, it should have expired by now.

Copyright protects the implementation, not the idea.

Someone else could implement it from the documentation or,
the old favorite, clean room method.

-- glen