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The history of Unix is as much about collaboration as technology (1994)
- zeckalpha 13y agoPlease add (1994)
- D9u 13y agoHistory is history, and I don't see how the fact that this article is nearly 20 years old changes anything. The very fact that Unix began as a multi-user, networked system, illustrates the collaborative nature of Unix, where other systems took an ad hoc approach to security by virtue of their origins as single user, non networked, systems, Unix started with these concepts as the foundation of the system - resulting in security being a primary concern rather than an afterthought. This approach to security had the effect of encouraging collaborative development, which, I believe, is the basis of the article.
- zeckalpha 13y agoThat's just convention. The insights here are important. I personally provide more weight to older articles that people post since they seem to be timeless.
- fsck--off 13y agoThis article is from 1994, when the Unix Haters Handbook was published. A year and a half ago Michael Traven (news.yc username "mtraven") founder of the Unix Haters mailing list, wrote: "...these days I like to say that Unix went from being the worst available operating system to the best available operating system without getting significantly better. (and yes, in the spirit of the list this is no doubt unfair, biased, mean, etc.)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109033
- fsck--off 13y agoOops. His name is Michael Travers, not Traven.