From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software.
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 10:12:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VTZF6rOHsfAXgo1v_c7s7j_YKwFArUgZAEKkF94t3mPQw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VSbyADvdNGy_hWzJan63qyYqpBgjrO_4LfcFXUqSwYw6w@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/7/22, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IBM decided to make lemons out of lemonade and discovered to their
> delight that they now could make money by selling the software that
> they used to just give away. Naturally if you're making customers pay
> for software you don't want the liability risk of having them tinker
> with it, so you don't provide the sources anymore.
I of course meant "make lemonade out of lemons".
-Paul W. [wiping face off egg :-) ]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-08 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-05 23:48 [TUHS] " steve jenkin
2022-09-06 16:09 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2022-09-07 4:00 ` steve jenkin
2022-09-07 14:58 ` John Cowan
2022-09-07 17:13 ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-08 14:12 ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2022-09-07 5:15 ` steve jenkin
2022-09-07 13:20 ` Dan Cross
2022-09-07 13:52 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-09-07 12:53 ` [TUHS] STDIN/OUT vs APIs [was: How Unix changed Software] Brian Zick
2022-09-07 13:19 ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2022-09-07 15:39 ` Joe
2022-09-07 15:43 ` John Cowan
2022-09-07 16:01 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-09-06 15:07 [TUHS] Re: Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-06 17:13 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-07 1:40 ` steve jenkin
2022-09-07 2:33 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-09-07 4:08 ` Steve Jenkin
2022-09-07 13:08 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-09-07 14:56 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-07 21:27 ` Steve Jenkin
2022-09-07 22:36 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-08 14:42 ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-08 15:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-08 15:04 ` ron minnich
2022-09-08 15:52 ` Warner Losh
2022-09-08 16:47 ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-08 16:50 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-09-08 17:58 ` ron minnich
2022-09-06 19:04 Douglas McIlroy
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