From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] If not Linux, then what?
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 22:16:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190827021658.GF28066@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqEs2RQ3YO_6PxfMtipD5PXm2wdztdkHRFLZfsO2DhaEA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 05:27:14PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> BSD was in decent enough shape at the time to run on PCs. Though it
> fragmented early through no fault of Linux. And the AT&T lawsuit created a
> lot of FUD in the area without actually protecting System V. It's unclear
> if another thing would have popped up to fill the void... Linux flourished
> in the confusion, but without it, it's hard to know if something else would
> have been developed before the AT&T lawsuit settled.
It's really hard to answer these what-if questions. The *BSD's
suffered from some really toxic politics which resulted in the
fragmentation, but it also no doubt turned away some developers. I
had friends at MIT who were urging me to quit the "toy" Linux and
switch to the more "Real" Unix efforts. But I got to meet at least
one very toxic personality in person which immediately turned me away
from that offer --- and I got my start on BSD 4.3 with Project Athena.
(For all that people used to like to complain about Linus's e-mail
persona, I *much* preferred to work with Linus than with some of the
personalities in the *BSD/HURD communities.)
People are very fond of blaming the *BSD's failure to become popular
on the AT&T lawsuit, and that no doubt didn't help. But it's not at
all clear to me that was the only, or even the primary, reason.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-27 2:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-26 23:13 Arthur Krewat
2019-08-26 23:27 ` Warner Losh
2019-08-26 23:37 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-26 23:56 ` William Pechter
2019-08-27 0:19 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-27 0:30 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-27 0:58 ` Rob Pike
2019-08-27 1:06 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-27 2:53 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-27 9:47 ` Rob Pike
2019-08-27 7:47 ` arnold
2019-08-27 16:05 ` [TUHS] Running v10 Angelo Papenhoff
2019-08-27 16:27 ` Henry Bent
2019-08-28 4:22 ` Jason Stevens
2019-08-28 7:34 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-08-28 16:46 ` Henry Bent
2019-08-27 0:59 ` [TUHS] If not Linux, then what? Arthur Krewat
2019-08-27 1:26 ` Dan Cross
2019-08-27 2:45 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-27 3:14 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-27 14:55 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-27 22:30 ` George Michaelson
2019-08-27 22:40 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-27 22:46 ` George Michaelson
2019-08-27 22:59 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] " Larry McVoy
2019-08-27 23:10 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2019-08-28 0:07 ` George Michaelson
2019-08-28 3:22 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] " Rob Pike
2019-08-28 3:25 ` Rob Pike
2019-08-28 4:05 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-28 13:52 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-28 14:31 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2019-08-28 14:57 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-28 6:19 ` Wesley Parish
2019-08-28 6:30 ` Peter Jeremy
2019-08-28 11:05 ` Jason Stevens
2019-08-28 11:11 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-08-28 14:04 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-28 16:34 ` Henry Bent
2019-08-28 17:32 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-28 17:51 ` Jon Forrest
2019-08-28 18:56 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-28 20:23 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-08-29 3:24 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-08-29 10:55 ` Tony Finch
2019-08-28 13:57 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-28 12:46 ` Warner Losh
2019-08-27 23:16 ` Bakul Shah
2019-08-27 23:33 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-28 0:21 ` Bakul Shah
2019-08-28 1:21 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-28 1:46 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-27 0:48 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-27 1:25 ` Gregg Levine
2019-08-27 2:16 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2019-08-27 2:39 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-27 5:54 ` Adam Thornton
2019-08-27 6:05 ` Gregg Levine
2019-08-27 1:17 ` Dan Cross
2019-08-28 3:53 ` Charles H. Sauer
2019-08-28 4:30 ` Jason Stevens
2019-08-28 9:36 ` Angus Robinson
2019-08-28 9:50 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-08-28 10:48 ` arnold
2019-08-28 14:10 ` Earl Baugh
2019-08-28 14:55 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-28 14:22 ` Charles H Sauer
2019-08-28 15:00 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-08-28 15:37 ` Richard Salz
2019-08-28 19:54 ` Peter Jeremy
2019-08-28 20:05 ` Christopher Browne
2019-08-28 20:07 ` Christopher Browne
2019-08-28 20:27 ` Adam Thornton
2019-08-28 20:56 ` William Pechter
2019-08-28 22:24 ` Clem cole
2019-08-28 22:27 ` William Pechter
2019-08-28 22:53 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-29 18:40 ` Nemo Nusquam
2019-08-29 19:18 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-08-28 22:28 ` Clem cole
2019-08-28 22:48 ` Adam Thornton
2019-08-28 23:01 ` William Pechter
2019-08-28 23:09 ` Adam Thornton
2019-08-29 6:37 ` Wesley Parish
2019-08-28 23:04 ` Gregg Levine
2019-08-29 11:12 ` Tony Finch
2019-08-28 23:19 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-08-29 13:31 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-08-29 13:55 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-29 15:54 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-08-29 19:19 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-08-31 1:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-31 15:14 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-08-31 16:58 ` Christopher Browne
2019-08-31 21:20 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-08-28 21:02 ` Thomas Paulsen
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