Estava relendo a carta de 1983 sobre Programadores de Verdade e isto me chamou a atenção:

Unix is a lot more complicated of course– the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week– but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don’t do Serious Work on Unix systems: they send jokes around the world on UUCP-net and write Adventure games and research papers.

Troque UUCP-net por listas de discussão de software e esta constatação continua valendo até hoje, em nosso mundo de Linux e BSD.