From: "A. P. Garcia" <a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix [really RMS bashing]
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 20:29:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFCBnZs0w9oOwubBtUe0EeSiN2pK1jUPoGEjnzkP2M95Hhf8cw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201901062341.x06NfXe2021557@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
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On Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 7:43 PM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com wrote
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>
I would argue that Linux would not have happened without the internet
> making it possible for folks around the world to participate. And I think
> that there's a good chance that the tools would have been created anyway.
>
That's more or less how I look at it. Back in the day there was
comp.sources.unix for example. In Unix itself, there was /usr/ where tools
developed by users other than the core developers belonged, and there was
/usr/ucb/ where they put stuff from Berkeley. The culture surrounding Unix
has always seemed to encourage outside participation, going back to the
lenient licensing of Research Unix, and even before that, when it just
existed at Murray Hill.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-07 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-06 23:41 Jon Steinhart
2019-01-07 1:29 ` A. P. Garcia [this message]
2019-01-07 1:59 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-01-07 2:39 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-07 2:59 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-07 3:32 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-07 5:05 ` Toby Thain
2019-01-07 5:36 ` Andy Kosela
2019-01-07 1:38 ` Toby Thain
2019-01-07 2:11 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-07 2:31 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-07 0:49 Larry McVoy
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