From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:16:00 +0800 Subject: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX") In-Reply-To: References: <20170314224547.GB14659@naleco.com> <20170315192815.GA15120@naleco.com> Message-ID: Well $999 would get you source.. https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/32/93939063_729b710163_z.jpg?zz=1 With more and more magazines of the era being scanned and put online, I should try to find the 1800itsunix... On March 17, 2017 3:47:55 AM GMT+08:00, Dave Horsfall wrote: >On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Josh Good wrote: > >> It is obvious to me that RMS's GNU movement was aimed at solving that > >> very problem. And if that was a problem, then the "UNIX openness" you > >> talk about does not seem to have been very practical at all. At >least, >> it was totally useless to PC hackers, like Linus Torvalds - he had to > >> write his own UNIX, because he was not able to get any UNIX source >code >> he could readily compile and run on his i386. > >Perhaps I'm confused (not uncommon) but I have distinct memories of >having >a source licence for my BSD/OS system on a 386... > >-- >Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will >suffer." -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: