Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 4th, 2021

• Mark Jones Lorenzo (2017) Endless Loop: The History of the BASIC Programming Language book
  • John Kemeny wiki
• [@3:11](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=191) Tim’s excellent tweet
  • William Gibson wiki
  • John Browne (1996) The Bug Count Also Rises short story
• [@5:38](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=338) Growing up with BASIC
• [@8:03](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=483) Braille ’n Speak PDA (intro video), BASIC programming
• TI-BASIC language
• [@10:39](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=639) Speaking program reading off system calls in real time 
  • snoop could output to /dev/audio
• [@13:39](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=819) Joel Spolsky (2002) Strategy Letter V blog
  • Bryan’s (2004) The Economics of Software blog
  • Software “maintenance”
• [@20:02](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=1202) Cathedral and the Bazaar, wiki
  • “Forkophilic” development model and the Alan Cox -ac Linux tree
• [@26:07](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=1567) Open source as something in the commercial best interest of a business 
  • SCO v IBM wiki
  • Halloween documents wiki
  • Steve Ballmer’s “Linux is a cancer” quote in the Chicago Sun-Times
  • OpenOffice.org wiki (open sourced from StarOffice)
• [@30:29](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=1829) Document editing as a service. Services and open source
• Richard Stallman on SaaS
• [@33:34](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=2014) The Joel Test link
  • Joel’s (2007) Strategy Letter VI blog
  • “Everybody wants to be a platform”
• [@38:58](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=2338) Joel’s take on Sun 
  • Making the pie larger. Porting NFS to rival platforms
  • The Sun Network Filesystem: Design, Implementation and Experience has a section on porting experiences.
  • Monetizing software - “Sun could never monetize software, only hardware”
• [@44:44](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=2684) Window toolkits, “cross platform”, write once run anywhere
• “Write once, debug everywhere”
• What’s the directory separator on MVS? or Stratos VOS?
• [@51:40](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=3100) James’ experience working on Tomcat 
  • Joel’s (2002) Lord Palmerston on Programming blog
  • Graphics toolkits, Electron/Web vs Native
• [@1:05:21](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=3921) “OpenSolaris downloads are potential buyers for the ZFS appliance”
• [@1:06:17](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=3977) Jason Hoffman “The Sun does not shine on me” 
  • Strategy cannot make up for poor execution
  • Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz didn’t travel to meet customers
  • Demoing to a hostile audience
  • “Asteroid named Linux on a collision course” tweet
• [@1:13:20](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=4400) Open-core, AWS services, monetizing open source 
  • “People will pay for a service”
  • Could Apple open source?
• [@1:18:43](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=4723) Packaged solutions; giving mom a linux box. Free software: free for whom? 
  • Support relationships. People want support
• [@1:22:05](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=4925) Why didn’t Sun embrace Linux? 
  • ZFS on Linux, Ubuntu
  • The Sourceware Operating System Proposal – Larry McVoy’s open source SunOS 4 proposal.
  • Sun bought Cobalt wiki
• [@1:25:33](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=5133) “The writing was on the wall for Sun..” 
  • x86 price-performance
  • “Couldn’t you buy like 100 x86 computers for that price?”
  • RISC machine in-fighting, while Intel undercuts the market
• [@1:31:01](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=5461) Josh’s work on frustrating hardware configuration
• [@1:33:25](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=5605) Peter’s experience as a Sun customer 
  • Vertical scaling, but not so much horizontal scaling
  • Clusters of cheap commodity hardware outperforming big multiway boxes
  • Importance of open source for big internet companies
  • Traders used Sun workstations, for fast trading
• [@1:38:39](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=5919) Oxide is bringing up their first server boards!