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 24895 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2023 15:05:14 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 19 Jan 2023 15:05:14 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498644243C; Fri, 20 Jan 2023 01:04:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8B604243A for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2023 01:04:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 0534135E2F0; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:04:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:04:34 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: arnold@skeeve.com Message-ID: <20230119150434.GA626@mcvoy.com> References: <202301180943.30I9hrOw030485@freefriends.org> <202301181513.30IFDDUJ015224@freefriends.org> <20230118151446.GD2964@mcvoy.com> <202301190802.30J82KwQ025718@freefriends.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202301190802.30J82KwQ025718@freefriends.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: UF2VDSEX2SPSXCGPDH7A3W2LZMBXEFWR X-Message-ID-Hash: UF2VDSEX2SPSXCGPDH7A3W2LZMBXEFWR 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: I had already been using Linux for a while by then I believe. I used it before it had networking. Pretty early on I got to be friends with Linus and was really impressed with his leadership. That's what sold me on Linux, he was the thing that was missing in the BSD world. If someone like him had appeared and unified the BSD world I think we'd all be running BSD. On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:02:20AM -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > In hindsight, I agree. But at the time, Linux was less than > five years old, and it wasn't so obvious. > > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > 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 -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat