From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [COFF] Standing on the shoulders of giants, free or not
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:18:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MCPr9n5=18FYOtorQPSaDn9raVgzLvmPU03AJZ=WZJAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200218225824.GB152025@mit.edu>
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 5:58 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
> It seems that you are primarily arguing that the idea of "Open
> Systems" predates that of the Free Software and Open Source movements.
> That's no doubt true, chronologically speaking. However, for those of
> us who came up a bit after you, from our perspective, the "Open
> Systems" movement *failed*.
If your measurement of success was getting access to sources, yes it
failed. But if you measurement was making UNIX the standard for all
computers in the future -- it was wildly successful. It's a bit of
perception I suspect. We were tired of having to deal with VMS et al.
That said, you were tired of the UNIX wars -- which is a reasonable view.
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2020-02-18 21:17 clemc
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2020-02-19 1:18 ` clemc [this message]
2020-02-19 1:54 ` lm
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2020-02-19 2:56 ` lm
2020-02-19 4:38 ` davida
2020-02-19 5:04 ` tytso
2020-02-19 6:11 ` imp
2020-02-19 7:56 ` wkt
2020-02-19 21:21 ` dave
2020-02-19 15:19 ` lm
2020-02-19 21:13 ` clemc
2020-02-19 21:37 ` dave
2020-02-19 2:41 ` dave
2020-02-19 8:27 ` thomas.paulsen
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