Rant: Linux Wars
I got into Linux almost 15 years ago now. Back in the day, Linux was about having a cheap and convenient UNIX-like system for those who couldn’t afford expensive Sun hardware at home or who wanted to get more involved with understanding and hacking on the internals.
Linux benefited enormously from the fallout of the “UNIX Wars”, which had seen different UNIX vendors attacking one another, huge amounts of fragmentation etc., before a re-unification effort centered around common standards, like POSIX (and later, SUS). Yes, these standards are not perfect, but they send a strong message of intent.
Because we had common standards for low-level pieces, for interoperability, etc. we could at least make an effort to have portable software between very different systems. The reality wasn’t always rosy.
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