From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 7 7:26:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 07:26:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7344E37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 07:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by mail.cafes.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB7FQnP23759 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 09:26:49 -0600 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 09:26:48 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Eldridge To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lynx test / 2nd attempt In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 wkb@freebie.demon.nl wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Zero, without access to SRM sources. > > > > > > Gee, Mike, that's quite a lashing tongue you have. :) > > > > > > What's to stop anyone from writing their own SRM? Reverse engineering? > > > Is it against the license? Does SRM even have a license? > > > > It's one of those "if you have to ask" questions, really. > > Absolutely ;) SRM is a closely guarded secret even within DEC/CPQ. > And yes, it is licensed. Even if you had the source code you would have > to use VMS to build the code 8) Figures. :) On the bright side, if you had the source, a local community college here still runs VMS on VAX. There are DEC vt100, vt220, vt300, vt320, and vt400 terminals all over the campus. It's neat, amusing, and sad all at the same time. Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message