[HECnet] TOPS-10/20 copyright status

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-11-15 12:55, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 11/15/2014 03:49 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2014-11-14 16:43, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Evening,

What IS the current copyright status on TOPS-10/20?   Who owns it? I
assume it's still copyrighted I assume...and I doubt the current
copyright owner would bother to enforce their rights to it.

By the way - why do people assume that people would not want to protect
their rights?
This whole attitude scares me a little.

    In this case, it's because the rights are to a decades-old OS that is
viewed by the business world as being nothing more than a long-dead
historical curiosity.

That is a mistaken assumption. Just because most have long since forgotten it does not mean it is dead.

    We know it's awesome, and we understand why, but let's put it this
way...Windows is fast disappearing, and it's not exactly TOPS-10/20
that's killing it.

Yeah. Not sure how relevant that is, though.

	Johnny