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They didn't hate Unix because it was open, but their hatred of a more open system does make them look a bit ridiculous: Any system tied to a single company is d
by msla 2y ago
They didn't hate Unix because it was open, but their hatred of a more open system does make them look a bit ridiculous: Any system tied to a single company is doomed anyway, either to the company dying or the company discontinuing it and/or turning it into something you can't stomach. (Microsoft lives, but how happy are MS-DOS partisans these days?) It kinda taints their technical points with a whiff of fanboyism, a naïve partisanship and attachment to entities that didn't give a shit about them.
- anthk 2y agoLOL. Man, most Unixen in the 90's where as corporate as Microsoft, Linux was still a Usenet hobbyist project and 386BSD was sunk into lawsuits. Proper hacker projects died a few years ago with the end of the PDP10/ITS/Emacs and the GNU project was still working on a replacement for that platform but cloning Unix with Emacs/Info and so on top of that because of convenience with 'modern' times.