What is on Your Mind?

Just quickly, would like one of the more senior users to describe what UNIX.COM is to the world.

I'm doing a webpage with a link and need a good description.

Better you provide it than me guessing.

unix.com is a unix forum.

Thanks Perderabo,
Wouldn't have thought that. (lol)

About the Unix Forum:

UNIX.COM began in 1992 as the UNiversal Internet eXchange for the purpose of creating a Universal Internet eXchange (UNIX) that was not dominated by commercial Internet service providers (ISPs). We were concerned that the Internet might become dominated by commercial carriers and we hoped to influence the designers of the Internet (the IETF) to abandon their ideas to change the Internet to a provider-based IP address allocation scheme.

To make a long story short, commercial interests dominated the debate (and the IETF) and the IAB and the IETF adopted an IP address allocation scheme that favored ISPs. Our hopes of changing this direction was diminished over time as the Internet become more and more commercialized. Yet, the dream is alive!

Today, UNIX.COM, as it did in 1992, provides users from every corner of our universe an opportunity to enjoy a commercial-free exchange of technical ideas and the freedom to discuss important topics related to their network-centric, multi-tasking computing careers, including the myriad variations and flavors of Linux and Unix environments. UNIX.COM is a commercial-free gift to the world IT community, where users across the planet come together to help each other in a professional, commercial free exchange of technical ideas - a Universal Internet Exchange of ideas!

Enjoy and Contribute!

Neo

What I want to know is:

What was the biggest offer you ever received for rights to the name "unix.com" ? I mean, if "Linux.com" garnered several million from VASystems, UNIX.com must have had similar offers.

Frankly I must commend this site's owner on not having succumbed to the lure of filthy lucre. I personally don't think I would have been as virtuous.

Many thanks Neo.

If you have no objections, I'll use your passage as an introduction on my links page.

Many thanks.

Thanks for the compliment.

I prefer not to openly discuss how much I've been offered for UNIX.COM over the past 12 years. Yes, it was a very large sum and yes, I did not accept them

It was never my intention to acquire UNIX.COM for the purpose to make a profit or commerical gain. My intent was to provide a non-commercial place in the original spirit of the Internet, like an oasis in the commercial dystopian world (desert society).

Money is the root of almost all evil......

Neo