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I always thought there was quite a contrast between UCB giving away BSD versus UCSD making its p-System a commercial product. In the short term, it was probably
by flyinghamster 3y ago
I always thought there was quite a contrast between UCB giving away BSD versus UCSD making its p-System a commercial product. In the short term, it was probably good for UCSD, but in the long term, the p-System is all but forgotten while BSD trucks along.
- pjmlp 3y agoWe get to have its influence on Smalltalk, JVM, MSIL, DEX, and all those that think WASM is the first of its kind.
- flyinghamster 3y agoHmm, which came first, the p-System or ZIL? -checks- Add ZIL to that list as well, as the p-System dates to 1977 and ZIL to 1979.
- tingletech 3y agoI thought BSD being free was part of the consent decree from AT&T vs Regents. The technology transfer office would never sign off on open source license, even in the early 2000s. You would have to make and end run around them to office of general council to start a new open source project, once granting agencies started requesting open source. Even if you did end run around tech transfer, you could not use a license that mentioned anything about patents (UC does not want to give away patents, but giving away copy rights was permissible)