Re:Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014)
by pjmlp on Friday June 10, 2016 @04:28PM
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The only good bones of UNIX is being free.
If AT&T was allowed to sell it, I doubt very much the market would have seen such good bones.
So like in any free gift regardless of quality, people build gadgets on top of gadgets and think that is the best there is.
The UNIX haters handbook still holds quite some truths when checking an actual version of HP-UX or other commercial UNIX es.
A fact of the UNIX free culture is that people only started contributing to gcc after Sun decided to stop offering the developer tools.
Some of us prefer doing administration of machines via tools like Active Directory or have an OS that has security access lists applied to every kernel object.
Also UNIX has lots to learn from mainframe OSes like IBM I, z/OS or Unisys MCP.
But their owners sells them, they weren't forced to give the source code for free to universities.
If AT&T was allowed to sell it, I doubt very much the market would have seen such good bones.
So like in any free gift regardless of quality, people build gadgets on top of gadgets and think that is the best there is.
The UNIX haters handbook still holds quite some truths when checking an actual version of HP-UX or other commercial UNIX es.
A fact of the UNIX free culture is that people only started contributing to gcc after Sun decided to stop offering the developer tools.
Some of us prefer doing administration of machines via tools like Active Directory or have an OS that has security access lists applied to every kernel object.
Also UNIX has lots to learn from mainframe OSes like IBM I, z/OS or Unisys MCP.
But their owners sells them, they weren't forced to give the source code for free to universities.