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Offline psxphill

Re: Commodore UNIX, some questions
« on: May 21, 2013, 10:19:49 PM »
Quote from: nicholas;735548
I am no lawyer, but wouldn't the copyright return to the programmer once the company he wrote the software for went bankrupt? Especially since no one else bought the rights to it.
 
This is how many 80's games have been re-released recently.

No that isn't an automatic thing. It would have to be included in the contract. It would usually only happen if you wrote the software and took it to someone else to publish, not if you were paid to develop the software as an employee.
 
Also commodore only licensed the unix source themselves & the contract for that will probably have terminated those rights when commodore went under.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: Commodore UNIX, some questions
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2013, 10:16:09 AM »
Quote from: olsen;735625
Interesting; I didn't know that there were so many 68k ports of SVR4 around. By 1992 Unix usage had started to tilt towards RISC platforms (SPARC and MIPS), and Motorola's 68040 did not exactly draw a crowd (although Apollo Computer/NeXT used the 68040 in a number of models).

NCR sold 68040 based machines too. Around 1992 was when x86 unix started to take off.