Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Ken Thompson Recalls =?UTF-8?B?VW5peOKAmXM=?= Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins Date: 29 Oct 2025 17:43:55 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <10drbgs$2ef5e$1@dont-email.me> <10ds2lb$2l3kk$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net U+X7LWir41jfdTTl/NZ+dAjO7lTyBU9TLG3ZdavR7j7vRO7X4i Cancel-Lock: sha1:HA+2TRJl9unjn4RZJFfzTkHwtWs= sha256:fXWqJmdOwc/A3ALnCRYnpQme5fevVyPChld4XFoaZRM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76808 On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:45:45 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > Copied to my clipboard then used the editor to correct the line break. > > > > Old eyes at least in this person sometimes miss such subleties > in small print. > That is an interesting article by the way. Yeah, those were the days. "Thompson credits Richard Stallman with developing much more of the open source philosophy. “But Unix had a bit of that.” Maybe it grew out of what Dennis Ritchie was remembering, that fellowship that formed around Unix. “For some reason, and I think it’s just because of me and Dennis, everything was open…” It was just the way they operated. “We had protection on files — if you didn’t want somebody to read it, you could set some bits and then nobody could read them, right? But nobody set those permissions on anything … All of the source was writable, by anybody! It was just open …" While I appreciate some of the work of the FSF Stallman's talmudic legalisms rub me the wrong way. I remember when 'it was just open'.