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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 27582 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2023 15:14:55 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 18 Jan 2023 15:14:55 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCDD423A4; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 01:14:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B092423A3 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 01:14:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 3106935E91F; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:14:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:14:46 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: arnold@skeeve.com Message-ID: <20230118151446.GD2964@mcvoy.com> References: <202301180943.30I9hrOw030485@freefriends.org> <202301181513.30IFDDUJ015224@freefriends.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202301181513.30IFDDUJ015224@freefriends.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: WJOITXII7NQSV6SO2TM4CS6QMUDF2A6T X-Message-ID-Hash: WJOITXII7NQSV6SO2TM4CS6QMUDF2A6T X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: It makes perfect sense, it's a repeated story, commercial loses out to free. On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 08:13:13AM -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > Interestingly enough, Phil Hughes, who founded Linux Journal > in the early 1990s, predicted that this would happen one day. > This was in a private conversation we had. I thought he > was crazy, but he was right. > > arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > > > https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/ > > > > FYI. > > > > Arnold -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat