Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

"In your editor's opinion, Kernighan missed an opportunity to evaluate the free-software community in these terms. Companies may not have long time horizons, but many free-software projects do. It is, still, a place where people with good ideas can come together and see where those ideas lead. It would have been good to hear his thoughts on whether the free-software community has become that place where interesting things can happen and, if not, what we should seek to change to get there."

I agree. Hmm.... could our coach-class-loving Editor perhaps reach out to Mr. Kernighan for a guest article? :) Or even a video interview of Mr. Kernighan?

Thank you for a very nice summary.