OSF without AT&T code

[David Lubkin]

OSF is presumably going to use the established method for getting
out from under licenses:  hire employees who have demonstrably never
had access to source code, have them work at a separate facility,
be able to prove it, and have the backbone and wherewithal to fight
in court.

Phoenix did this to create a work-alike to the MS-DOS BIOS, which 
they then licensed to many manufacturers, thereby creating the PC 
clone market.  Lynx recently announced a "POSIX compatible, SVID 
compatible" (whatever that means) real-time almost-UNIX that does 
not require an AT&T license.

Given the money and the will, it's not that hard.

I wonder if they'll start from scratch or include the various public
domain pieces floating around the net (including the pd MINIX add-ons).


-- David Lubkin.


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