Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : hyjinx
Date : Wed Sep 24 2025 22:34:16

 pF>  In 2000, I ran a company off of a Sun Enterprise 250 - Purple, gray,
 pF>  big vents, a big door with a key... we replaced it with a bunch of
 pF>  white boxes running Linux.   :(

That wasn't the worst days of it.. I remember the days of the 'big iron' workstations and micro-servers turning into beige Linux. But at least the operating system running in all that beige was a fun time to be in though. Back in 2000-2010, Linux was such a vibrant community. People really cared, interesting things were happening every day, and people committed so much of their free time to open source goodness for the sake of it, not corporate greed. I feel that has all but vanished now.

Now it's a sea of beige, and a sea of beige operating systems. Even Linux has ceded ownership largely to a few big corps when it comes down to it, excluding the kernel, for the most part anyway. But even that has parts coded by IBM, Microsoft, Google and others. Nothing is free any more. No more cathedral and the bazaar.

Al


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube)
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