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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence
Date: 13 Oct 2024 18:39:02 GMT
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:04:00 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> I wouldn't. We'd been using Unix for years for bigger iron than a single
> user PC. It was pretty well organised in every area except its
> commercial existence.
> Too much Lawfare.

Unix had a rocky history going back the the Bell anti-trust suit and it 
didn't get better as time went on. At least in the Boston area a lot of 
PDP-11s were running Unix systems of dubious ancestry.