@stefano @viq I remember a time before Linux existed, when most of the Unix variants in the world were proprietary and based on BSD. When SCO was a cool upstart company to work for and 386/BSD struck terror into the hearts of commercial Unix vendors.

Fading empires with entrenched interests are always going to take irrational actions that ultimately end up destroying them. The Unix vendors of the time stopped innovating and started litigating. Innovators routed around them and eventually commodity CPUs and the OSes running on them became “good enough”. It was an extinction level event for the proprietary Unix vendors who had seemed untouchable.

I didn’t get into computing because of an operating system. I got into computing because I wanted to understand how everything worked. I gravitated to Unix-like operating systems because they seemed to give me the most tools to accomplish that mission. I learned to code to test and prove my understanding.

And I’m still learning, still testing, still proving, and still improving myself. Keep focused on your mission, whatever it may be. Fight the battles that need fighting. Remember history has shown the things that seemed most unchangeable have a habit of suddenly becoming something remembered only by old timers like me.