19 Jan
2023
19 Jan
'23
9:04 p.m.
I had already been using Linux for a while by then I believe. I used
it before it had networking.
Pretty early on I got to be friends with Linus and was really impressed
with his leadership. That's what sold me on Linux, he was the thing
that was missing in the BSD world. If someone like him had appeared
and unified the BSD world I think we'd all be running BSD.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:02:20AM -0700, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
In hindsight, I agree. But at the time, Linux was less
than
five years old, and it wasn't so obvious.
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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