The meeting with Roy is in regard to Microsoft software. (01)
Jonathan Cheyer wrote:
> Paul McJones wrote:
>> Re the "exclusive property" label on the Alto schematics: I have had
>> a background project to find someone at Xerox to officially grant
>> some sort of access to Alto source code, etc. I did find the correct
>> person: Dan Swinehart. Unfortunately he doesn't seem very motivated
>> to actually work on this. (Again, maybe Al has some news.)
>
> Hopefully when you reach the point that Xerox is willing to grant
> access, make sure that their statement includes all associated
> documentation, manuals, diagrams, etc., in addition to the source
> code. A lot of the important historical information comes in these
> other forms.
>
>
>> I've also been working with Roy Levin, currently head of the
>> Microsoft Silicon Valley Research Lab; this is going more smoothly.
>> (Bernard and I are having lunch with Roy tomorrow; maybe we can give
>> you a progress report.)
>
> Is this related to the Alto, or is this for other historical software?
>
> Jonathan (02)
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