As author of the petetion (Well, not that there really is a "petetion" persay), I feel I need to clarify this point.
I have been in correspondance with a former Symantec/Quarterdeck employee who was talking with an internal contact, who said:
Got an answer to your request for DV(/X) to be made [Public Domain]: no.
The long and the short of it was "for the time and effort needed to release these as PD products, how does Symantec benefit other than from a feeling of goodwill from some users?". Essentially, they want a dollar-amount specified to quantify how SYMC can benefit from freeing these products.
When presented with the argument that "No "time and effort" on Symantec's part would be involved, other than
signing off on a statement releasing them to the public domain, just as
Lineo has done with CP/M.", the internal contact repied:
You missed my point.
That's part of the problem in that it has to be approved by the PM, the
Group PM, the division VP, and legal. Since there's no money in it for
Symantec, or any big benefit, they're not going to do it.
The CP/M example works for a small company. Symantec isn't small.
I think that the best chance to have something DVX-like is to join Amos Vryhof's project listed elsewhere on this forum.
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As author of the petetion (Well, not that there really is a "petetion" persay), I feel I need to clarify this point.
I have been in correspondance with a former Symantec/Quarterdeck employee who was talking with an internal contact, who said:
Got an answer to your request for DV(/X) to be made [Public Domain]: no.
The long and the short of it was "for the time and effort needed to release these as PD products, how does Symantec benefit other than from a feeling of goodwill from some users?". Essentially, they want a dollar-amount specified to quantify how SYMC can benefit from freeing these products.
When presented with the argument that "No "time and effort" on Symantec's part would be involved, other than signing off on a statement releasing them to the public domain, just as Lineo has done with CP/M.", the internal contact repied:
You missed my point. That's part of the problem in that it has to be approved by the PM, the Group PM, the division VP, and legal. Since there's no money in it for Symantec, or any big benefit, they're not going to do it. The CP/M example works for a small company. Symantec isn't small.
I think that the best chance to have something DVX-like is to join Amos Vryhof's project listed elsewhere on this forum.