i would like to share some photos from the exhibition, and the book, by Gagik Haroutiunian. I’ve already shared this one before, but this photo is of a better quality. or may be not.
so, the photo is called ‘president’, and dated 1991. however, we can see the flag of armenian soviet socialistic republic, and obviously it’s 1990, atd LTP was not a president yet, he was a speaker.
We in illumos were indisputably on our own, and while many outsiders gave us no chance of survival, we ourselves had reason for confidence: after all, open source communities are robust because they are often united not only by circumstance, but by values, and in our case, we as a community never lost our belief in ZFS, Zones, DTrace and myriad other technologies like MDB, FMA and Crossbow.
In stark contrast to proprietary software, open source does not — cannot, even — die. Yes, it can be disused or rusty or fusty, but as long as anyone is interested in it at all, it lives and breathes. Even should the interest wane to nothing, open source software survives still: its life as machine may be suspended, but it becomes as literature, waiting to be discovered by a future generation.