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Great history! I can understand Stallman feeling like he deserved more credit, but he did come to be identified with the whole opensource movement as a consolation prize.

In the early 80s I was actually starting to get into Unix bigtime, but then at my my job we got a computer called a VAX that ran an OS called VMS. Everything was plain English and totally intuitive. Like if you wanted to print 3 copies of a file in landscape mode on a printer called Hulk it would be PRINT /COPIES=3 ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE DEVICE=Hulk . Fully spelled out it was a bit verbose, but you could shorten anything as long as it was unambiguous. At the time I thought VMS was so much easier to learn, it would blow Unix right out of the water. Today VMS is in the dustbin of computing history. Not the first time I've been wrong lol.

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