Everybody sing now!
Allen August 17th, 2005
(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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