[COFF] Standing on the shoulders of giants, free or not

[Clem Cole]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 5:58 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:

> It seems that you are primarily arguing that the idea of "Open
> Systems" predates that of the Free Software and Open Source movements.
> That's no doubt true, chronologically speaking.  However, for those of
> us who came up a bit after you, from our perspective, the "Open
> Systems" movement *failed*.

If your measurement of success was getting access to sources, yes it
failed.   But if you measurement was making UNIX the standard for all
computers in the future -- it was wildly successful.   It's a bit of
perception I suspect.   We were tired of having to deal with VMS et al.

That said, you were tired of the UNIX wars -- which is a reasonable view.
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