Re: Re: What Are the Chances That CICS/VS will Be Available for DOS/VS Under Hercules???

(Please trim your quotes. Thanks.)

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:49:03AM -0000, dosvsoperator wrote:
> How then did we end up seeing DOS/360, DOS/VS, OS/MFT, OS/MVT, MVS 3.8j,
> et al. released to the public domain (Thank G-d and IBM for that!)???

They wren't released to the public domain. They were never copyrighted to
begin with. Before 1978 in the US, anything published without a copyright
statement was automatically in the public domain.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that IBM did not copyright its
operating systems because of the consent decree that it was operating under
with the Department of Justice, after an earlier unfavorable court decision
and an antitrust lawsuit.
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