[TUHS] Was the SVID A Foregone Conclusion Pre-usr group?

Luther Johnson luther.johnson at makerlisp.com
Sat May 17 09:33:08 AEST 2025


Well, this is almost the same thing, but I think of it more as trying to 
make money off of Unix. We lost the spirit of what made UNIX great when 
it became about having the standard, dominant, market leading, version, 
and all that nonsense. We might say first, get rid of all the marketers.

On 05/16/2025 03:51 PM, Marc Rochkind wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) 
> <lyndon at orthanc.ca <mailto:lyndon at orthanc.ca>> wrote:
>
>     I think AT&T's real problem was that the post-1984 UNIX business
>     was run by the lawyers.  If you look at it, nearly every UNIX-related
>     fuckup on AT&T's part can be directly traced back to the lawyers.
>
>     If they had only listened to Shakespeare.
>
>     --lyndon
>
>
> Hey, you forgot the TM on UNIX!

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