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Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
(www.xda-developers.com)
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According to the article it was royalty free and published open standards, but they do not make any claim to this being an FOSS system.
Per Wikipedia…
It’s not even a software project as we know it. It’s a specification like POSIX, and presumably, anything implementing the spec can be certified if it passes a test suite, like UNIX.