[Info-vax] Message from HP.

Paul Sture nospam at sture.ch
Wed Dec 11 01:15:15 EST 2013


Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> On 2013-12-11 02:10:17 +0000, Bill Gunshannon said:
>
>> Name one proprietary, commercial OS that has been released to the world 
>> in source?  No. CP/M doesn't meet that definition.
>
> AT&T Unix is available.  Overview 
> <https://archive.org/details/ATTUNIXSystemVRelease4Version2>
> OpenIndiana / Illuminous / OpenSolaris 
> <http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Home>
> Darwin: <http://www.opensource.apple.com>

> HP WebOS 
> <http://liliputing.com/2012/03/hp-to-release-more-source-code-for-webos-3-0-5-hp-touchpad.html> 
> (incomplete, omits the encumbered parts)

The latter indicates that HP might have a good idea of how much it takes
to identify and eliminate encumbered software from an OS.

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Paul Sture

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