Too many good operating systems are dying out recently. come to mind) years and years to figure out this new business model, the problem is that by now it's probably too late for Coherent to be part of the game, which is sad because it was (still is) a nice operating system. Most of the people you prefer to call "snobs", those who complained that they cannot (or don't want to) afford Coherent back in the day still don't pay a penny to RedHat.īut don't worry, it took many other companies (Sun, Intel, etc. the fact that you can still make a living out of something that's being offered practically everywhere else "for free". Sadly, this just shows that you (and probably your employers at that time) didn't (and maybe still don't) grasp the concept of Open Source. Support Manager, Mark Williams Co, 1990 - 1994.)ĭougp59 wrote:Laughably at that time, the Linux 'snobs' argued why would they buy Coherent when they could download Linux for free? Then a company wearing a hat that was red took that argument and started charging cash for Linux! Go figure! ![]() So now, you have 2 options, continue to code for free and aid Red Hat and Novell, or take up a new challenge and step into the time machine and work on Coherent, provided the source code is released. To this day, Red Hat and Novell are very - very grateful for your contributions to their P&L statements and 401K's ever since. Very quickly, the available resources we had at Mark Williams, with people getting paid and needing to get paid in order to pay their mortgage, was eclipsed by at world wide legion of coders working literally for 'free'. Laughably at that time, the Linux 'snobs' argued why would they buy Coherent when they could download Linux for free? Then a company wearing a hat that was red took that argument and started charging cash for Linux! Go figure! I have no doubt that given enough capital from whatever means, the OS would have flourished and would have found a niche between the freeware users of Linux and the, at that time, expensive options in the land of licensed UNIX.Īll that has changed now, but in the early 1990's when I was in Bob Swartz's employ, there was no middle ground between the infant Linux that Linus Torvald's was babysitting and the big boys at AT&T, IBM, SCO and SUN.Ĭoherent's demise was the simultaneous rise of the Internet, and a worldwide collection of C coders that loved the free source of Linux and the challenge of taking this freeware fledgling UNIX clone and turning it into the worldwide success that it is now. I was a former employee during the Mark Williams days when Coherent was a quick rising star that regrettably was eclipsed by Linux. ![]() Roytam1 wrote:from comp.os.coherent newsgroup:įor better user experience, it is better to run it under VirtualBox:
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