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

Thanks, Jay! It is an honor to address you, sir! :)

I did not know this! I always thought IBM owned the rights to these OSes and for whatever reason decided to release them to the public...

Yours truly,

Robert Duncan

--- In [email protected], Jay Maynard <jmaynard@...> wrote:

> 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.
> -- 
> Jay Maynard,