Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!.POSTED.toad.stack.nl!not-for-mail From: Marco van de Voort Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Compiling and linking code from different places in the file system Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:49:49 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Stack Usenet News Service Message-ID: References: <9K6qC.684$hq2.22@fx42.am4> <8bdrC.101673$kF1.42216@fx41.am4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:49:49 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mud.stack.nl; posting-host="toad.stack.nl:2001:610:1108:5010::135"; logging-data="44527"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@stack.nl" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (FreeBSD) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.misc:3971 On 2018-03-21, Andy Walker wrote: >> I don't know what the guys at these Unix places were up to. Did they >> even sell commercial applications? > > ??? Bell Labs was the research arm of AT&T -- as commercial a > company as anyone could want. For once in world history, a company did > something amazing -- they employed a significant number of the world's > cleverest people, and said to them "do whatever you like", knowing that > all sorts of really good ideas would emerge, whether or not those ideas > were of direct benefit to AT&T. (commercial but inhouse is not the same as suitable for a shrinkwrap software model. Unix and derivatives remain a construction kit with limited cross version binary compatibility to this day. Which is not a problem for the communications cupboards it was designed for, but is a problem when the OS and app vendor differs, and works using different timelines/scales)