17 Mar
2017
17 Mar
'17
1:47 a.m.
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."