On 1/11/2011 5:41 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Why do you think it is that BSD Unix has not held its own in competition with GNU/Linux?
One acronym: IBM. IBM could not successfully compete with Windows NT with their AIX line running on the WinTel PC. Microsoft had screwed over IBM and their OS/2. IBM jumped on the Linux bandwagon big time during the SCO debacle with RCU, JFS, NUMA etc... This stimulated peripheral driver development for PC hardware. The GPL was good at suppressing new commercial competition which pleased both IBM and Microsoft. Apple, for example, went proprietary with the freedom provided by BSD contributions in XNU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU Look at Apple now: And. . . Boom: Apple Worth More Than Microsoft. http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100526/apple-worth-more-than-microsoft/ Sincerely, RJack :) Capitalism Always Wins ! _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
