I recall talking to some DEC guys about the time it was acquired by Compaq. In the High Performance Computing world DECs UNIX based OS (Tru64)for Alpha worksta

I recall talking to some DEC guys about the time it was acquired by Compaq. In the High Performance Computing world DECs UNIX based OS (Tru64)for Alpha workstations was very highly regarded. We got talking about Linux which was still pretty early, though certainly moving out of its hobbyist days. This guy said that the OS guys at DEC used to project portions of the Linux source code up on a screen and sit around making jokes at some of the coding. Isn't it interesting that in the end the open source collaborative model outlasted and kept improving while the closed source commercial model got bogged down in acquisitions and disinterest from Compaq and then HP and eventually mostly faded away.