[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[John E. Malmberg]

On 8/22/2012 6:46 PM, David Froble wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote:
>>
>> That is because Unix has evolved quite a bit during this time.  Apple
>> ported its HFS file system to Unix, there is zfs and more traditional
>> file systems as well. And you can mount FST FAT32 NTFS etc as well.
>
> Here is where I get confused.  Where did all these updates come from?
> Who payed to have them implemented?
>
> It just doesn't seem to me that it can work, Many flavors of Unix being
> free, while having development work performed.  Can anyone show me these
> people who work for free?  My lawn needs to be mowed, again ...

You paid for some of that work.  Check the e-mail addresses in the 
change logs.  There are a lot of ".gov" and a lot of ".edu"

In some cases corporations like RedHat subsidize the development, with 
bug fixes first going to their paying customers before releasing them to 
the world.

Other parts were supplied by device manufacturers to support it.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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