[TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

[Larry McVoy]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 11:22:14AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> There are lots of people who will complain
> about Linus Torvalds' supposed lack of social skills; but his ability
> to hold the senior members of the development community together
> without having the sorts of splits that we saw in FreeBSD, NetBSD,
> OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, etc., should be a hint that the story is a bit
> more complicated than what is promulgated by the click-baity headlines
> out there.

This.  I recognized this in Linus decades ago and it's why I switched to
Linux.  I was a BSD (aka SunOS) guy big time and I left that because
of what I saw in Linus.  I miss BSD a little but am quite happy with
Linux.  Say what you will about his rough edges, he's held it together
for a long time.  Kudos.
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