The article discusses the importance of knowing the history of UNIX and how it is being forgotten in the world of free and open source software. It emphasizes the need to remember the past to avoid repeating mistakes.
FOSDEM is a conference all about free and open source software , and these days, perhaps regrettably, FOSS is about Unix. Increasingly,. The problem is that everyone is forgetting what UNIX really is and knowing your history is essential. As George Santayana said, often misquoted: Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.
When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.What Santayana predicted is coming true around the world today, and so is what Spencer predicted. There are other options, but few even look at them. Why is that?First things first, it doesn't mean anything related to the original AT&T codebase. That definition hasn't been true since 1993.31 years ago, kept the code, and donated the UNIX trademark to the Open Grou
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