11 Mar
2020
11 Mar
'20
2:30 p.m.
On Mar 11, 2020, at 5:24 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Sometimes we get lucky. Again, PLATO -- got permission to use it but the owner didn't
have a copy. Fortunately, someone else did (an actual still-running production system, on
an actual CDC mainframe) and that person was willing to do the work to copy the system in
a form we could use.
paul
Bob Supnik got Unisys to release the sources to
BTOS while he was
VP of engineering, but we've never been able to find a copy of them.
They outsourced support to India, and all traces to what happened to
the software have vanished.
So, in addition to many companies being reluctant to release rights to IP, a lot of stuff
is just lost without a trace.