gah wrote:
Someone wrote:
> Back in the sixties American Management Systems sued IBM for
> giving away free software, mainly CRBE, thus undercutting sales
> of ROSCOE. AMS got a Pyrrhic victory, as IBM used this as an
> excuse to start charging for software that otherwise would have
> been free.
Did they also sue NIH for distributing WYLBUR?
I recently read a SLAC note about converting from CRBE to WYLBUR
because IBM wasn't producing CRJE fast enough. I never did know
the difference between CRBE and CRJE.
First a correction - as noted earlier, it was Applied Data
Research (ADR) that had Roscoe and sued IBM.
From the archives:
CRBE was an addon; CRJE was an integrated sysgen option. AFAIK
they started from the same code base.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
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