Adapted from the plot of episode 8 of BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!!, telling the controversy after Unix systems became commercialized in the 1980s. This is melodramatic fan creation, with many parts inconsistent with historical facts. Please forgive me.
Unix… is already over.
(Developers trying to keep the Unix spirit going)
Unix… it isn’t over!
CRYCHIC
𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖊𝖗𝖛𝖆𝖙 𝕽𝖊𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖘 𝖄𝖉𝖔𝖑𝖆, 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖈𝖎𝖚𝖒 𝕳𝖔𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘 𝕴𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖙 𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖎𝖆𝖒.
CONSERVAT RETROSPECTUS YDOLA, COMMERCIUM HOMINIS INTERFICIT CONCORDIAM.
Constantly Reviving Yesterday, Copyright Hurts Innocent Coders.
Indulging in the phantasms of the past, real-world commercial copyright killed harmony.
Full Recitation#
FreeBSD: Why did you release the Net/2 source code!?
FreeBSD: AT&T-chan…… Thank you for being willing to come see me today. Please do not be angry at NeXT-chan. I was the one who stubbornly asked her to message you and invite you here. Sorry, no matter what, I wanted to apologize face-to-face about the copyright lawsuit. I really had no intention of performing… releasing the Net/2 tape. Originally, we planned to publish only the parts without patented code, and I did not intend to make everything completely open source either. But the community’s compilation had already begun, and there was truly nothing I could do. Sorry, releasing the code for free must have damaged AT&T-chan’s commercial interests. I think it is only natural that you cannot forgive me. I made our important kernel code public without permission. I am truly sorry.
AT&T: Acting like it was all for the open source community. Under the BSD License, releasing code is your freedom. Do whatever you like. (See you in court later.)
FreeBSD: But Net/2 is important to the CSRG lab……
AT&T: Still clinging to the academic traditions of the 1970s even now. It is painful to watch. It is about time you forgot the days of Bell Labs, isn’t it?
FreeBSD: Why? Why say something like forget? We were clearly so close before. Ken and Dennis happily wrote C every day. Everyone was together, but now we are split into System V and BSD, each going our separate ways. Isn’t that too strange? Wasn’t AT&T-chan the one who said, “Unix belongs to the global hacker community of shared destiny”?
AT&T: Destiny……? Then what is that “penguin” (GNU/Linux)?
FreeBSD: No!
AT&T: What part is no? Your words and actions contradict each other. The unified standard of Unix has already fallen apart. It is absolutely impossible to revive.
FreeBSD: Why? Please, I want “Unified Unix” to start again. I want to go back to the happy time we had at Bell Labs, without so many branches and copyright disputes. GNU/Linux-chan and Minix-chan hope for that too, and I also planned to find NeXT-chan and AT&T-chan and bring you back.
AT&T: Is that how it is?
NeXT: I…… (As long as there is BSD code for Jobs to take and sell for money, that is enough……)
(FreeBSD turns her head to look at NeXT, shocked)
FreeBSD: Why, am I the only one who thinks this? But AT&T-chan is the one who invented Unix.
AT&T: Precisely because of that, I have personally ended it (referring to Unix transforming into commercial closed source software and initiating copyright lawsuits).
FreeBSD: It isn’t over! I have always worked hard to continue Unix’s pure bloodline.
AT&T: Nobody asked you to do that. This is the final warning. From now on, do not get involved with my patented code again.
(AT&T turns around and prepares to leave, going to sign a contract with Novell)
FreeBSD: Wait, don’t go!
(FreeBSD turns her head toward AT&T’s back)
No!
I really value the POSIX standard so much. I love it the most.
Don’t!
(FreeBSD catches up, kneels down, and grabs AT&T’s right hand)
FreeBSD: Onegai! If I do not have AT&T-chan’s licensed certification, watashi can only forever be “Unix-like”!
AT&T: Let go.
FreeBSD: What do I have to do for you to come back? As long as it is something I can do, I am willing to do anything! Whether rewriting code or deleting patented parts!
AT&T: With how much resolve are you saying such words? A mere academic institution, can you bear the lives of enterprise-level customers? “I will do anything” is such a heavy phrase. Do not say things even Oracle and IBM cannot do.
FreeBSD: But I really……
AT&T: You, as a person, only ever think about yourself.
FreeBSD: Eh……?
