From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:18:52 -0500 Subject: [COFF] Standing on the shoulders of giants, free or not In-Reply-To: <20200218225824.GB152025@mit.edu> References: <20200218225824.GB152025@mit.edu> Message-ID: On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 5:58 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: