Re: Possibility of open-sourcing GS/OS

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <s3Qbf.1314$yb2.92@news.itd.umich.edu>,
Greg Andrzejewski <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote:
> <madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> 1131374872.936294.230270@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com">news:1131374872.936294.230270@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>I was wondering if people think that we could convince Apple to open
>> the source code to GS/OS. If they were to do that, it would mean that
>> we could more easily enhance it to take advantage of new developments
>> in hardware and possibly even produce ports to other 65816 systems (the
>> SuperCPU accelerator available for the Commodore 64 and 128, for
>> example)
>>
>> Do people think that it would even be worth starting a petion about
>> this? I for one think it might be, as Apple no longer supports the
>> software AND already distributes it as Freeware.
>
> 
> Never gonna happen. Has Apple ever made ANYTHING open-source?

Sure!  When the original Apple II was released, the source code for the
monitor ROM was printed in the manual.  OK, it wasn't GPL'ed or anything like
that of course, but the source was made available!

> Sure, It'd be really, really cool but I think it's just a pipe dream.
> Frankly, I'm thrilled that they have some of their old OS's for download.
> Asking for code is pushing it.
> 
> -Greg 

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