[TUHS] AIX moved into maintainance mode

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:04 AM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> I had already been using Linux for a while by then I believe.  I used
> it before it had networking.
>
> Pretty early on I got to be friends with Linus and was really impressed
> with his leadership.  That's what sold me on Linux, he was the thing
> that was missing in the BSD world.  If someone like him had appeared
> and unified the BSD world I think we'd all be running BSD.
>

By the time even 4.3BSD was released, there were dozens of people that
could work on the kernel at a high level of skill. There was no one person
who created it who could have the gravitas to pull that off. Let alone a
decade later when it was freed up, by then there were hundreds. The
dynamics of the situation were quite different: Linus always was in charge
because he wrote the whole thing...  BSD was a victim of it's own success
in the 80s and 90s in a way...

Warner


> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:02:20AM -0700, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> > In hindsight, I agree. But at the time, Linux was less than
> > five years old, and it wasn't so obvious.
> >
> > 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
>
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
>
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