> So where we talking about these OSes on desktops. When did Ibrahim
> hadad say this ? early 2000s ? Well that was the case back then not now.

We talked internetworking 'only'. We were never on Desktop!!

Ibrahim Haddad talked to me about this in 2006!!

> Ask NYSE why did they move to Linux from Solaris.

Thats what exactly Ibrahim Haddad was talking about!

> What else do you need ?

More eyeballs for BSD :)

> Yes we know who Eric Allman is. FOSS has nothing to do with the UNIX
> culture, it's the hacker culture that is related to UNIX and BSD. Bill Joy
> is not a big fan of open source and neither SUN was. If they had been a
> big fan they would have opened solaris way back.

open source is a business model. probably they were comfortable with
their earlier model.

> When a 35 year old project gets influenced by a 20 year old project, it's a
> big thing.

influenced because of the institutionalizing of the social machine
around the code, quoting Eric S Raymonds :)

>
>> Hey guys, can we have USENIX India?

can we have it?


Mohit Singh
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