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Offline AmigaFreak

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Re: Commodore UNIX, some questions
« on: May 20, 2013, 11:01:14 AM »
I have a (sort-of) insite on this subject. UNIX v1-7 (called "Ancient UNIX") are now open source, I'm running the SIMH PDP-11 emulator on a FreeBSD machine. It is running a clean install of UNIX v6 that was installed from a rip of a PDP-11 tape of the UNIX 6 distro. I don't think Amiga UNIX, like that of UNIX past v7 is free.
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Re: Commodore UNIX, some questions
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2013, 10:36:53 PM »
Quote from: danbeaver;735550
Open source has never meant "free" but under license. In essence the original Unix and subsequent developments form that source are "owned/licensed" but are in the Open Source domain which should include the Amiga version. Unix written for other hardware was not sold or transferred to the designers of that hardware but remained with the AT&T/Sun/BSD/SCO/XOpen group. You can use it, improve it, love it, but the software is not yours -- it remains open source and under license.


Yeah I agree, I meant "free" as in ability to change. Though from what I read System V-based UNIX are still considered "closed source" which is what I meant. Anyway, that would be cool, I myself would love to run Amiga UNIX in WinUAE. :)
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