From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:47:55 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX") In-Reply-To: <20170315192815.GA15120@naleco.com> References: <20170314224547.GB14659@naleco.com> <20170315192815.GA15120@naleco.com> Message-ID: 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."