16 May
2025
16 May
'25
11:33 p.m.
Well, this is almost the same thing, but I think of it more as trying to
make money off of Unix. We lost the spirit of what made UNIX great when
it became about having the standard, dominant, market leading, version,
and all that nonsense. We might say first, get rid of all the marketers.
On 05/16/2025 03:51 PM, Marc Rochkind wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM Lyndon Nerenberg
(VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
<lyndon(a)orthanc.ca <mailto:lyndon@orthanc.ca>> wrote:
I think AT&T's real problem was that the post-1984 UNIX business
was run by the lawyers. If you look at it, nearly every UNIX-related
fuckup on AT&T's part can be directly traced back to the lawyers.
If they had only listened to Shakespeare.
--lyndon
Hey, you forgot the TM on UNIX!