On Saturday 02 February 2002 15:40, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:31:46PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > > Contrast the history of BSD with the history of a certain > > GPL'd OS whose name we've debated recently. > > Linux was developed to run on the PC. The internet was open to the > average Joe in the early 90s. How many people had "developer level" > access to VAXen, and/or the internet, as well as enough time on both > to acutally use these to work on a pet project in the early 80s? > What about the overall number of hackers in the early 80s, as > compared to the early 90s? What about the economy of the early 80s > as compared to the economy of the early 90s?
At the risk of a flame war, I ask, are you saying that simply by virtue of having a more euphonious name, Linux pulled ahead of the BSDs in popularity? They certainly had a head start. And even as far as PCs vs VAXen, et al. go, wasn't 386BSD around well before a viable Linux? Or is it a personality thing -- is Linus just the more charismatic of the OS project leaders? What dynamic(s) do you see at work? (I bet your already on record on this and all I need to do is check the achieves.)
