Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
FOSDEM 2024 There are vital lessons to be learned from the history of Unix, but they're being forgotten. This is leading to truly vast amounts of wasted effort.
This article is the second based on The Reg FOSS desk's talk at FOSDEM 2024 (part 1 was Drowning in code). FOSDEM is a conference all about free and open source software, and these days, perhaps regrettably, FOSS is about Unix. Increasingly, Unix today is Linux. The problem is that everyone is forgetting what UNIX really is and knowing y...
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