From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 30705 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2022 21:40:41 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 3 Jun 2022 21:40:41 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0B640CC6; Sat, 4 Jun 2022 07:40:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D95440CB9 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2022 07:40:33 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id E8CCC35E1C0; Fri, 3 Jun 2022 14:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 14:40:32 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo Message-ID: <20220603214032.GQ10240@mcvoy.com> References: <20220603202330.f4spdxyn34uiyy5v@illithid> <20220603213215.GO10240@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: QVRJ66YNFCKY27INPHI5UEULUN3PWIOW X-Message-ID-Hash: QVRJ66YNFCKY27INPHI5UEULUN3PWIOW X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fwd: [simh] Announcing the Open SIMH project List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 11:36:07PM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: > Larry McVoy writes: > > > BSD would have won if there was a Linus for BSD. There was not so you > > got all this replicated effort, the BSD community effectively divided > > and conquered themselves. > > I do not agree. Linux won because BSD was embroiled in litigation. Like I said, we experienced that differently. In my opinion, people lean on the litigation excuse when they don't want to admit that *BSD was not a good way to do operating system development.