On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Ken Tilton <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:

> ​Thanks for the wonderful history. I was immediately reminded of the

> Garden of Eden​, a time of innocence before we ate from the tree of

> good and evil.

Curiously, while certainly full of innocence, I think in some ways it may have been less Eden-like and more an antagonistic response to the Great Adversary, deliberately going in a direction opposite to Multics’s concerns for security. An argument could be made that this division laid the ground work for the FOSS movement. Via bits of history in which Lisp (mostly pre-Common) is heavily involved.

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Don Morrison <dfm2@cmu.edu>

“Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate

yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody

else’s.”      —Mary Schmich, /Chicago Post/, 1 June 1997