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Who actually owns the Symbolics IP these days? I still wonder if it would be possible to put a 3600 on a chip.
by protomyth 10y ago
Who actually owns the Symbolics IP these days? I still wonder if it would be possible to put a 3600 on a chip.
- gumby 10y agoI heard rumor that JCMA had bought it. I'll ask him.
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- buttershakes 10y agoI thought that symbolics was still running in a limited capacity and pulling in money from government contracts. At least that was the case five or six years ago. I know licenses for Genera were being sold as late as 2010 for around 5k. I would be interested to know if this IP changed hands.
- bbctol 10y agoI'm distantly related to the original founder, and have been told this confusing version of the story: Symbolics was bought out buy a different company that then renamed themselves Symbolics, though none of the people remained and the new company just pulled government contract money for "maintenance." Eventually, the IP was owned by a single person named Andrew Topping, who was known to the rest of the world pretty much only by name; no one knows his history. Then he died. Now nobody has any clue who owns the IP, where any useful documentation is, etc...