FOSDEM 2024 To move forwards, you have to let go of the past. In the 1990s that meant incompatibility, but it no longer has to. This article is the third based on The Reg FOSS desk's talk at FOSDEM 2024. The first part of this short series talked about the problem of software bloat. The second talked about the history of UNIX, and how its development continued at Bell Labs after commercial vendors picked up earlier versions and took them to market. One of the results of this pattern of developme...