[TUHS] 3 essays on the ujnix legacy

Arnold Robbins via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sun Nov 2 16:25:16 AEST 2025


Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> As things grew, more and more people got paid. Even though the passionate
> folks got money or patches or both.

I never got a job doing Free Software, even though I tried a time
or two. Maybe once or twice (in 38 years!) someone paid me to do something
on gawk for them.  't'would have been nice to have made a living
with this passion.

> I'll totally admit this is a bit of a simplification, but tracks decently
> well with my involvement with open source over the last 40 years...

Yes, I'll agree.

Arnold


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