16 Sep
2019
16 Sep
'19
5:27 a.m.
Actually the thing that some (maybe many) of the folks you mentioned seem to have the
hardest time accepting the Linux is just the modern implementation of Unix. which i think
is sad. I think Linux is a wonderful piece of work but the developers do need to
recognize we’re it came.
There is a famous line which I wish I knew who said that to paraphrase becomes: “In
science we stand on the shoulders of the great people that came before us, but in computer
science we try to step on their toes.”
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Sep 15, 2019, at 5:28 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sun, 15 Sep 2019, Clem Cole wrote:
And this is the biggest issue. And I have observed (maybe I'm wrong - but it seems
to me ...) that the people that I know today, that dislike Peter's work dislike that
Linux is not huge part of it. Or more importantly that it was the emergence of the
Internet and UNIX that were enablers for Linux. As Jon has suggested, it should not be
Gnu/Linux but rather Internet/Linux.
Indeed, and not a few Linux users hate it being pointed out that Unix was first. If it
was not for Unix, we would not have Linux (because you had
to pay for Unix).
And my pet theory is that if it was not for Unix, we would all be running
some version of Windoze, and loving it...
-- Dave