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From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: "A. P. Garcia" <a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix [really RMS bashing]
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 20:59:18 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1901062058370.86901@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFCBnZs0w9oOwubBtUe0EeSiN2pK1jUPoGEjnzkP2M95Hhf8cw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 6 Jan 2019, A. P. Garcia wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 7:43 PM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com wrote
>
> <snip>
>
>>
> 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.
>
>>
>

If not for GNU, Unix would still have been cloned.  Net/2 happened in 
parallel, did it not?

-uso.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-07  2:06 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
2019-01-07  1:59   ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
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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