[TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX")

[Jason Stevens]

Well $999 would get you source..

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/32/93939063_729b710163_z.jpg?zz=1

With more and more magazines of the era being scanned and put online, I should try to find the 1800itsunix...

On March 17, 2017 3:47:55 AM GMT+08:00, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Josh Good wrote:
>
>> It is obvious to me that RMS's GNU movement was aimed at solving that
>
>> very problem. And if that was a problem, then the "UNIX openness" you
>
>> talk about does not seem to have been very practical at all. At
>least, 
>> it was totally useless to PC hackers, like Linus Torvalds - he had to
>
>> write his own UNIX, because he was not able to get any UNIX source
>code 
>> he could readily compile and run on his i386.
>
>Perhaps I'm confused (not uncommon) but I have distinct memories of
>having 
>a source licence for my BSD/OS system on a 386...
>
>-- 
>Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will
>suffer."

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