We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom

Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by Retric on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:14AM (#11869914)

NCSA httpd also predates Linux.

NCSA httpd released version 0.1 was June 1991. http://www.w3.org/Daemon/Features.html

Amusingly: http://www.diam.unige.it/informatica/documentazione/httpd_do... "3.5) Why doesn't NCSA HTTPd work on my Linux system? NCSA HTTPd is not crippled. Linux may be crippled. NCSA HTTPd uses a standard BSD4 and SYSV feature known as file descriptor passing. NCSA HTTPd supports both the BSD and SYSV style of file descriptor passing. Linux chose not to implement either."

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by batbomb on Thursday June 09, 2016 @12:41PM (#11870531)

That's CERN httpd release notes for 0.1 @ 1991, not NCSA. NCSA didn't join the web until much later.

In fact, SLAC was first to the web in the USA, and Marc had originally approached my boss, who wrote MidasWWW, to see if he'd want to collaborate on the web browser which would become Mosaic.

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by Retric on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:28PM (#11871315)

Doh, missed the edit window. However, it's clear that NCSA was not initially developed on or for Linux.

PS: An interesting side note, the SGML standard committee decided not to include hyperlinks which more or less directly resulted in HMTL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_La... I wonder if that would have pushed the web forward even faster or not as HTML is far less strict, but you could make a less strict render for SGML as well.

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