[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 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
> Personal Opinion Only

Which ones should I talk to about my lawn ??