Wesley Parish wrote:
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:15, Wesley Parish wrote:If they use the GPL doesn't that mean that they have to say to every one buying a cellphone/VCR/ricecooker something like "This product uses TRON which is distributed under the GPL. If you want the source code of TRON write a letter to ..."?
Quoting Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:15, you wrote:There's actually a F/LOSS version of TRON floating around - I've downloaded
Lat night I mentioned in passing the operating system TRON (not to be confused with the movie, Tron). About 2.6 billion systems are shipped with TRON installed each year: http://web-japan.org/trends/science/sci030522.html That makes TRON the OS with the largest user-base by quite a margin
:)
Um, I read recently that TRON was (or will be) crushed mercilessly by M$, in an "embrace and extend" kind of way:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/online/archives/2003/09/microsoft_in_tron_tie up.html
http://today.java.net/pub/n/MS_Tron
http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/msvshistfact.html
Andy
the files but never got around to compiling them. If I remember correctly
it's hosted or referred to at sourceforge.net. TRON is more of a
specification, a standard than an Operating System in its own right. In
that it resembles Unix.
Well, I've had no luck digging up the B-FREE TRON source code on the Net, and I appear to have lost it off my hard drive somewhen.
But, goto:
http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/toppers-jsp.html
and you'll find a similar TRON project, distributed under what appears to be a GPL variant license.
Enjoy!
Wesley Parish
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