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Caldera to Open Part of UNIX Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the taking-their-own-sweet-time dept.

Andy Tai writes: "According to this Caldera press release, Caldera is beginning to release the components of the original Unix source code under the GPL or other licenses (such as Caldera's Open Access license). While some of these Unix utilities (grep and awk) may not be very useful, since GNU equivalents have been available for many years, the original Unix tools going GPL has a big symbolic meaning--the original Unix is gradually becoming Free Software! Unix was the giant RMS aimed to replace. Now GNU is gradually taking the place of the original Unix."

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  1. hehe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    open source this

  2. Second Porst by Captain+Salad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Woo-hooo!

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    1. Re:Second Porst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      2202000 ?

  3. Evil company! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

    1. Re:Evil company! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It might be offtopic but still quite a horrifying fact.

      Stop work with those evil companies!

    2. Re:Evil company! by codeforprofit2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Troll?!

      Do you think its ok to work with nazis to hunt down jews that are then killed?????

      Facist!

  4. Nothing to do with this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    completely off topic, but wtf is up with slashdot right now? not answering, giving me weird pages....

  5. Re:It's about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Huh?

    Oh...it's a troll.

    Nevermind.

  6. Re:It's about time by pdiaz · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Mod down this sucker as a the troll he/she is. Always posts the same history - no changes, always the same

    No matter if what he/she is insighful or not - this post should rest along with the "Stephen King dead at 53" and goatse.cx links

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  7. Re:It's about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey it seems as if you don't want teenagers to learn computers (how backwards), and it also seems as if you know so much about Operating Systems that you should be writing your own, because it would probably be a lot better than the stuff everyone else uses.

  8. Re:GNU isn't replacing Unix by AnhZone · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    from the sent-by-my-mom dept.


    Blue screen of death floats


    like gentle clouds in the sky


    when written in verse

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  9. Hey, you forgot to include your M$ badge number! by bobalu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Really now, you guys should be busy marketing XP, mm'kay?

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  10. Re:It's about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Why should he write a better OS than Linux? It's already here and it's called Windows.

    At least, more than 70% of Slashdot's readership seems to think so..

  11. Re:It's about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    not realy better than linux and it cost bucks so .. nevermind the bollocks!