Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> [2002-11-11 21:19:04 +0000]: > Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote: > >The old Bourne shell is not free software. Therefore only commercial > >proprietary systems have it available. > >[...] > >In order to find a Real Thing copy of the Bourne shell you would need > >to run on a commercial proprietary system which still has the legacy > >executables on the system. > > Well, not really. Here ya go: > http://ftp.gcu-squad.org/tuhs/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Henry_Spencer_v7/ > [...] > Anybody want to do a Debian/V7 ? ;) Sweet! Thanks for posting that. But I hate you now because I will be losing a lot of sleep staying up late to get that booted. :-) But none of those sources are free either. Just because you have access to the source code does not make the source free software. Bob
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