5 Jan
2017
5 Jan
'17
2 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Nevin Liber <nevin(a)eviloverlord.com> wrote:
Non-historical observation ... the interesting thing
about the paper Larry
linked, for me, is that it exactly describes the huge sucking black hole
that made Linux (or something very much like it) inevitable.
Brother, I think you have that right, although I believe it that can be
said of a number of the better early OS teams from those days.
It is no coincidence that the same passion we
found at Sun working
on SunOS, we also find in the community of developers working on the Linux
kernel.
+1 for Masscomp, SGI and Apollo
I always wondered how many of Sun's Kernel
Hackers found their path there.
From my alumni lists of the teams I was part, many of us are happily
hacking away in the FOSS community although, as other responsibilities have
come to my life - less and less time for some of it.
Clem