[TUHS] Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software.

Paul Winalski paul.winalski at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 00:12:36 AEST 2022


On 9/7/22, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IBM decided to make lemons out of lemonade and discovered to their
> delight that they now could make money by selling the software that
> they used to just give away.  Naturally if you're making customers pay
> for software you don't want the liability risk of having them tinker
> with it, so you don't provide the sources anymore.

I of course meant "make lemonade out of lemons".

-Paul W. [wiping face off egg :-) ]


More information about the TUHS mailing list