Wade-Mealing t1_j45n5c1 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 9:29 AM

Reply to comment by onewobblywheel in IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source by sector3011

How did the students get access to AIX kernel code in the 90's ? I thought that kinda thing was highly regulated.

onewobblywheel t1_j462oko wrote on January 13, 2023 at 12:38 PM

i'm afraid I don't know those details. I was concerned about copyrights/patents or whatever would have applied and asked about that. I was told that IBM funds their CS department and that gave IBM the right to use the code. We had an FTP account into the school's servers. That's how we retrieved it. I assume it was a two-way street with some contracts and agreements involved, but again, I don't really know.