(sung to "Where Have All The Flower’s Gone?")
Where have all the Unix gurus gone?
Long time going.
Where have all the Unix gurus gone?
Long time ago.
The AT&T research department that invented Unix has finally disbanded.
So Where Have All the Unix Gurus Gone?
I don’t fault AT&T for disbanding this group — a ghost of its former self. The seeds of this destruction were sown in the Judge Green breakup of AT&T. Once AT&T was no longer a monopoly, it eventually was not going to be able to support the Unix parasite. Not that I think Unix (and its derivatives) are parasites. It’s just that Unix was never really a focus for AT&T.
BTW, I know the guy who told Bill Gates that he couldn’t use the ‘/’ as a directory separator. He was an engineer where I used to work a long time ago. Apparently AT&T patented that concept and didn’t want to give it to this young software geek who was bothering us. So stupid software patents are not something that is new.
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