[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kerjg4$u78$2 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> Based on the popularity of things like the comp.sources.* groups I really
>> don't think NIH was a problem in the Unix world.
> 
> Oh, really ????
> 
> Then why do we have Linux ????

Don't get me started.....
Linux is the product of one child's ego based on a false premise from
the very beginning.  Or, to quote henry Spencer, "Those who do not learn
from UNIX are doomed to reinvent it poorly."


> 
> Or for that matter, why so many different Unixes ????

The differences in the various true Unix versions are trivial at best.
The biggest differences are in the proprietary Unixes where they were
delibrately introduced in an attempt to differentiate a product, garner
more sales and lock customers in.  I think it is fairly safe to conclude
at this point that the real Unixes [Free|Open|Net]BSD are similar to point
that there is no program written for one that will not compile and run on
another.  And that they outsnumber the proprietary Unixes in number of
installed systems.

bill


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