18 Jan
2023
18 Jan
'23
10:10 p.m.
I just hope we'll see some attempts at opening up these code bases as time goes on.
Seeing as they're no longer going to be pushing new copies and will eventually ramp
down maintenance releases, opening up the source would give their end users the ability to
potentially float their own improvements if they can't immediately migrate to Linux
or BSD. That said, security implications of course, don't want to just hand bad
actors a code base to comb for memory unsafety in.
Also this article is BSD erasure :(, no mentions of the big three save that OpenServer and
Darwin have chunks of FreeBSD in them. I guess Berkeley is just chopped liver...
- Matt G.
------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 at 7:14 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> 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(a)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(a)skeeve.com wrote:
> https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/
>
> FYI.
>
> Arnold
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