[Info-vax] Message from HP.

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <52a7d0b8$0$2706$c3e8da3$66d3cc2f at news.astraweb.com>,
	Subcommandante XDelta <vlf at star.enet.dec.com> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon:
>> In article <l88ada$p7l$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Well, step #1 is getting HP to release the VMS product to open source, 
>>> and without step #1, there are no other steps.
>> 
>> Name one proprietary, commercial OS that has been released to the
>> world in source?  No. CP/M doesn't meet that definition.
>> 
>> bill
> 
> QNX:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
> 
> Well the sun shone for a little while, until Blackberry RIM gobbled QNX up.
> 

1. Read the page you pointed at.  It was never truly "Open Source" as
   you had to sign a license agreement before getting any of it.  We
   used it here to teach Real Time and never had any source.  If they
   had, they might have continued to use it.
2. For something that went out of its way to deny its Unix heritage
   a quick "strings" of the kernel sure returned a lot of BSD Copyright
   messages.  I wonder if they stripped all that out before releasing
   the source?

bill

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