week 30; 2022
i gave myself an inverted bob with the kitchen scissors. it looks really cute! you can do anything if you just believe and drink a bottle of mezcal.
"what are you thinking about?" "UNIX"
going out for breakfast with her family for her mother's birthday today. very anxious about it. i understand little Spanish and speak much less.
chee, 10a.m.
it was a wonderful time. they are lovely people. we went to a museum and looked at stained glass and wandered around the historic centre, an area of mexico city i know and love well. on laurita's advice, i employed physical comedy. hiding the salt, pretending to eat a spoon with a knife and fork.
she was finishing some work for her diplomat this week and it meant a lot of staying up until 3-4. being a dog, it is difficult for me to sleep when the other members of the household are awake and doing strange things at the kitchen table so i was awake late most night. i've been sleeping just a couple hours a night, because work starts at 5-6. i got some good sleep towards the weekend, though, and the diplomat is basically finished now so we have more free time to do fun things together. on Friday night we lay in bed drinking tequila, and then we got up and went on a long walk. she forgot her big puffy coat on Thursday so i brought it to her at lunch and we ate hamburguesas. it's been a big week for hamburguesas and tequila.
in other news i've been writing a lot of code and publishing it. and reading a lot about the history of UNIX again. sometimes i feel like i'm re-litigating my past. not sure what else to write about right now. i'm more tired now than i've been in a very long time, and it feels great.
if you're looking for some computer stuff to do i'd like to recommend Zig and
good luck, everyone.
oh, nobody cares about this, but i revoked my pgp key and the new public key is available at https://chee.party/public.key and all good keyshops. support your local keyring.
my e-mail is yay@chee.party.
ok, time to finish unpacking the groceries and then hopefully writing a bit of the code i was going to write today. lol i went out for breakfast until like 10p.m.
she just called and informed me that next weekend we (her family, me and her, and the young man her sister is stepping out with) are going to frida kahlo's house
then the weekend after we are going to the pyramids at Teotihuacan
then the weekend after that we are going to Isla Janitzio en Patzcuaro en Michoacan
the day after that i fly to London.
lima
who owns UNIX
AT&T created UNIX in the 60s as part of the Bell System, but they were in trouble for being a monopoly and so they couldn't sell it as a product because it wasn't a telephone. They had to give licenses to anyone who asked for them. Universities asked for licenses. Bell Labs shipped out tapes. The consent decree was lifted when AT&T was broken up 1983, and it immediately started trying to sell UNIX. Berkley continued to produce their own version, the Berkley System Distribution. It's still used today as FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD, PC-BSD, OpenBSD and more! Its userland is one of the fundamental parts of macOS.
the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication
— Dennis Ritchie
A bunch of stupid shit happened for 20 years. Every company and university involved[1] sued each other over UNIX, but folks kept shipping patches on tapes. In the '90s AT&T sold UNIX to Novell for some reason. In 2011 Novell was acquired by The Attachmate Group. In 2014 The Attachmate Group was acquired by the British multinational Micro Focus, which means that UNIX is now headquartered in Newbury, England.
Anyway, I just typed all of this so I could say "Berkshire System Distribution". Thanks.
P.S. I would like to own the UNIX trademark. Do you think Micro Focus would sell it to me? They don't seem to be using it.
P.P.S have you ever seen the first IBM logo from 1924? 
Some Berkley folks left the university and started a company. AT&T sued them. Novell sold its UnixWare to the Santa Cruz Operation. In 2000 SCO sold it to Caldera International. In 2002 Caldera changed its name to The SCO Group (as in Santa Cruz Operation). The SCO Group embarked on a bizarre campaign to license Linux (no relation) to businesses for profit under the claim that Linux contains UNIX source code that was added by International Business Machines. This worked out well and they filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy a few years later. yada yada yada. that ibm case didn't close until like 2021 wtf. actually i guess everything stayed stupid forever ↩︎