I agree with you that we need to move away from the de facto coupling
between open source and Linux? There are other platforms (such as FreeBSD)
out there, and, besides, the platform upon which a system runs seems to be a
separate issue from whether it is open source or not. It seems to me that we
may well want to port whatever product we develop to Linux, FreeBSD,
commercial version of UNIX, VMS, Windows NT, etc.? Certainly Perl has been
ported to all of these platforms, though I believe Microsoft actually
commissioned the Activestate port of Perl to Windows.
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