The UNIX Haters Handbook shows its age, it's criticizing a system that has only a passing similarity with modern unixes.

But yes, it's funny.

Nonetheless, the specific examples show the UNIX system contradicted many of the supposedly "UNIX" principles. The article seems a bit revisionist in a pro-UNIX way in that sense. Unsurprising.

Saying that these are modern UNIX principles might be more fair. Yet, Kemp's article inspires doubt in even that:

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

Agreed, I posted mostly for the humor, though there are some grains of truth there still.

Agreed. Modern unixes are a lot worse.