Unix became popular because it was a) quite decently designed, b) portable and c) sort-of open source. A whole generation of computer science students (and their teachers) was able to hack into it, ...

In the 1990s and well into the 2000s, if you had mission-critical applications that required zero downtime, resiliency, failover and high performance, but didn’t want a mainframe, Unix was your go-to ...

Those computer science students went on to found companies like Sun, Apollo and so on, and to work at other companies like HP and DEC. Unfortunately, in trying to make money out of Unix, they made it ...