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Symbolics next, please!

• Tomte 4y ago
  Good luck hoping for that! They sold their "first .com domain" to some guy who… seems to be a domain squatter (although he writes a lot about not being one). Companies that eager to make a quick buck are usually not the ones open-sourcing their stuff.
  • rbanffy 4y ago
    It certainly feels like the people in the Amiga space. They'll milk their cow until its last drop of blood.
    • orangepurple 4y ago
      I'm not familiar with this culture. Can you expand on it?
      • lproven 4y ago
        I would guess that they mean Hyperion, which owns the name and IP. It develops AmigaOS 4.x for PowerPC Amigas: https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/where-to-buy/direct-downloads/174-amigaos-41-final-edition-for-classic https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/where-to-bu... And also AmigaOS 3.2 for old 680x0 Amigas: https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/1-latest-news/290-amigaos-42-for-all-classic-amigas-released-and-available https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/1-late...
  • gjvc 4y ago
    this is the guy who presumably sold the original domain, http://www.symbolics-dks.com/ http://www.symbolics-dks.com/
• rbanffy 4y ago
  That'd be INSANELY cool. Let's go a bit further then. Next, open source SCOPE, NOS/VE and PLATO!
  • cestith 4y ago
    For nostalgia purposes, I'd like to see MUSIC & MUSIC/SP source with a fully open license. It was on our mainframe at uni in the 1990s.
    • rbanffy 4y ago
      Do we have a wishlist for version 2.4? I'd go for s390x and 64-bit addressing support.
      • cestith 4y ago
        I haven't interacted with the system in decades. I have some wishlist items from since then but I really need to give the demo some time to have an updated list. Those two alone seem sufficient for a release though.
        • rbanffy 4y ago
          McGill will need to open-source it first. I'd suggest AGPL for the license ;-)