[Oberon] Re. Install your own OS

[yurix]

Hello, Jack.

You wrote 10 Oct 2005 y., 22:16:29:
JJ> Most people that can afford to buy a Dell would prefer to buy a commercial OS.
It's right.
JJ>   I think more of the marginalized users/countries/etc. who could
Or some people will rob 'commercial OS' or just install free variant
of commercial Linux..
JJ> use a $200 computer with a $20 OS, and of the overall benefit to them
...
JJ> and thought it was a very elegant solution to the problem.
Language - OS hybrid, research system isn't solution on Market!
All it's predecessors die for market.
(May be, may be .. Elegancy is not leak...)
It is solution only for self-motivated (and diligent)Mans!
Try think, why the Windows win? Why nearly nobody except ETH's not use
Pascal's line tools in  every day work? People wishn't even study by
Pascal-Modula-Oberon...swot C++/Linux, work Java/VB/Windows...
Only enterprise, which can lift full lifecycle of soft, can
develop subject!( Blackbox, XDS etc.)

JJ> My big question is, what are the licensing

It's very important and timely  question.
Licence of Oberon and  BB contain disclaimer only, so (I'm think) You free
sell it  for Your own risk without any mention of the ETH.
But what about Oberon and BB? I'm think they not protected against
patenting etc., and I'm request to Muller, Frey, or any legal person from ETH
for update licence of BB to GPL or proprietary ( with free source
spreading, of course). Without strong licence selling (including) is not
desirable.
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Yours faithfully,
 yurix                          mailto:yurix at i.com.ua