[SunRescue] multics is dead, long live multics!

[Ken Hansen]

If they went out of business, the software would be owned by the creditors.

It doesn't "revert" to anyone else. The programmers didn't fund it, and tey
don't get a tax break by giving away the software...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] multics is dead, long live multics!


> Who owns the assets to it?  Hmm.  A quick look around turns up Bull HN
> Information Systems in Billerica, MA, USA.  Are they still in business?
> If not (and assuming they didn't sell the rights before closing), then who
> would own the source, or would it then revert to the employees that wrote
> it, or would it revert to the public domain.
>
> --
> Joshua Boyd
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> > [ On Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 09:00:13 (-0400), Joshua D. Boyd wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Tape drive
> > >
> > > Is anyone releasing the Mutlics code to public domain?  Maybe we could
> > > port it to sparc.
> >
> > It's written in PL/1.  So's the PL/1 compiler for it.
> >
> > (no, I doubt the code will ever see the light of day, even though it's
> > probably sitting on whatever media might have gone with the DOCKMASTER
> > machine at the museum)
> >
> > --
> > Greg A. Woods
> >
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