From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:42:39 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX") In-Reply-To: <20170315202723.GG2995@mcvoy.com> References: <20170314224547.GB14659@naleco.com> <20170315192815.GA15120@naleco.com> <20170315202723.GG2995@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <6899fbbf-3f03-77de-be38-66a25b082c71@case.edu> On 3/15/17 4:27 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 03:45:24PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote: >> SVR4 (aka UnixWare) was available for source - the problem is many people >> did like the price to see it. It was $100K. But the source was available >> it was open and many, many of people with PC and had access to it, wrote >> drivers for it etc. > > That's a pretty peculiar definition of open. Which is fine, I guess, > but you need to realize that that's open much like a high end country > club is open. It's open to the rich people, to the connected people, > everyone else is left out in the cold. This is the same access vs. affordability argument we're seeing played out in other segments of US society. I have access to a Porsche, as do thousands of others (some of whom choose not to buy one), but I can't afford one. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/