Not sure I really want to wade back into this but... Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:37:28 -0400 Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote: ...Since you brought it up - who do you think wrote Windows? A bunch of academics? Or Linux? Or OS/2? Or MacOS? Or Z-OS?Didn't Linus initially create linux while a university student? And I believe that the GNU tools / Free Software Movement were products of Stallman and other MIT academics.
Yup. And MacOS is based on BSD Unix (written, by academics at Berkley) and at one point included the Mach kernel, another academic project.
How about Oracle Database? SQL? DB2? MySQL? More academics?
SQL came out of IBM, Oracle was purely commercial from the beginning. But Ingres came out of UC Berkeley. and Postgres came out of that. As I recall, a prime mover behind both was Micheal Sonebraker - then a Prof. at UCB, now one at MIT (when not at StreamBase).
How about C, C++, Pascal, COBOL and Fortran compilers? Or maybe PERL,gcc was largely written by Stallman, an academic.
C came out of Bell Labs - a pretty academic environment. Wirth (Pascal) spent most of his career as an academic.
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