UN*X License Plates

Snoopy seifert at mako.UUCP
Fri May 3 00:23:23 AEST 1985


In article <113 at lzwi.UUCP> psc at lzwi.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>> I was wandering through the company parking lot the other day
>> and came across the following UNIX license plate on a car:
>> 
>> 	2) Who sells them?
>So far as I know, no one sells them.  I got mine from DEC at
>the 1983 Usenix in Boston.
>>
>> 	1) What's this supposed to mean?
>It's a Unix license, of course!
>("Live free or die" is the state motto of New Hamphire, a hotbed
>of DEC Unix activity, I presume.)

"Live free or die" is a rather fitting motto for Unix as well.
If you don't like somebody's design decision, modify it!
No reason to put up with something you don't like.  Don't like
the standard command interpreter?  Write your own!  Don't like
the editor?  Write your own!  Don't like the spelling checker?
Write your own!  Unix is freedom!

Snoopy
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