[TUHS] AIX moved into maintainance mode

[Larry McVoy]

Pretty unrealistic to expect the users to suddenly have the time to do
kernel dev.  Solaris opened sourced itself and it's dead.

It's a lot of work to maintain and evolve an OS.  Windows, MacOS, and
Linux seem like the future.

As for BSD, they pretty much killed themselves by all the in-fighting and
the lack of someone like Linus.  That was obvious 30 years ago and it 
hasn't changed.  That's why I switched from BSD to Linux.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 04:10:34PM +0000, segaloco wrote:
> I just hope we'll see some attempts at opening up these code bases as time goes on.  Seeing as they're no longer going to be pushing new copies and will eventually ramp down maintenance releases, opening up the source would give their end users the ability to potentially float their own improvements if they can't immediately migrate to Linux or BSD.  That said, security implications of course, don't want to just hand bad actors a code base to comb for memory unsafety in.
> 
> Also this article is BSD erasure :(, no mentions of the big three save that OpenServer and Darwin have chunks of FreeBSD in them. I guess Berkeley is just chopped liver...
> 
> - Matt G.
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 at 7:14 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > It makes perfect sense, it's a repeated story, commercial loses out
> > to free.
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 08:13:13AM -0700, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Interestingly enough, Phil Hughes, who founded Linux Journal
> > > in the early 1990s, predicted that this would happen one day.
> > > This was in a private conversation we had. I thought he
> > > was crazy, but he was right.
> > > 
> > > arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > > https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/
> > > > 
> > > > FYI.
> > > > 
> > > > Arnold
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > ---
> > Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

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