Post B1p7HbCU3rWonUUXHE by hp@mastodon.tmm.cx
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 (DIR) Post #B1p7HZycbuqV0Czx20 by jpm@aus.social
       2025-12-31T22:22:08Z
       
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       @mos_8502 won’t be possible due to 3rd-party code critical for system operation: it embeds Veritas Volume Manager for its disk management. Upgrading to the full-featured clustered volume manager is just a license file instead of installing the full software suite.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1p7HbCU3rWonUUXHE by hp@mastodon.tmm.cx
       2025-12-31T22:47:02Z
       
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       @jpm @mos_8502 we could probably replace that pretty easily. Not sure how we could convince HP to spend the money to do the legal legwork and then the engineering to actually release the sources tho.They have like 0 incentives to do it. I think if we're ever going to see another open source Unix it'll be AIX.IBM, as an institution, cares about its legacy in a way that most corporations don't. I think that if we're going to convince anyone it'll be them. 🤷‍♀️
       
 (DIR) Post #B1p7HcaGuu9P5Yd2zg by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2025-12-31T23:56:54.473367Z
       
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       @hp @jpm @mos_8502 Yeah, they could do a partial source release, quite like what OpenSolaris did, and IIRC other illumos systems like OpenIndiana still had few bits to replace.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1pPdrg1HVnlRZ4cAC by khm@hj.9fs.net
       2026-01-01T03:19:10Z
       
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       this conflates two companies:HP, which used to make reliable printers and stopped, because selling garbage is easierHPE, which used to make reliable computers and stopped, because selling garbage is easierthey're totally different!The defining quality of HP-UX was getting wonky implementations of new features 3-5 years after AIX or Linux, so I'm not sure what open-sourcing it gets us.  They didn't even own the filesystem (Symantec does)CC: @mos_8502@studio8502.ca