[Info-vax] Message from HP.

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:15:15 UTC, Paul Sture  wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
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> > On 2013-12-11 02:10:17 +0000, Bill Gunshannon said:
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> >> Name one proprietary, commercial OS that has been released to the world 
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> >> in source?  No. CP/M doesn't meet that definition.
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> > AT&T Unix is available.  Overview 
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> > <https://archive.org/details/ATTUNIXSystemVRelease4Version2>
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> > OpenIndiana / Illuminous / OpenSolaris 
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> > <http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Home>
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> > Darwin: <http://www.opensource.apple.com>
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> > HP WebOS 
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> > <http://liliputing.com/2012/03/hp-to-release-more-source-code-for-webos-3-0-5-hp-touchpad.html> 
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> > (incomplete, omits the encumbered parts)
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> The latter indicates that HP might have a good idea of how much it takes
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> to identify and eliminate encumbered software from an OS.
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> Paul Sture
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> This is not a commitment to deliver any material, code or functionality
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> and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

Did we ever get anywhere here with identifying important encumbered bits left in VMS? Obviously there used to be quite a few encumbered bits, but how many of 
them are still relevant? E.g. Display PostScript was there but is now 
irrelevant. Needn't be answered right here right now, but if it's already been 
answered (at least in part) round here that might be useful (even if incomplete 
and not yet necessarily 100% lawyer-proof).