On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:04 AM Larry McVoy wrote: > 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. > By the time even 4.3BSD was released, there were dozens of people that could work on the kernel at a high level of skill. There was no one person who created it who could have the gravitas to pull that off. Let alone a decade later when it was freed up, by then there were hundreds. The dynamics of the situation were quite different: Linus always was in charge because he wrote the whole thing... BSD was a victim of it's own success in the 80s and 90s in a way... Warner > 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 >