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
RJack u...@example.net writes:
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
In gnu.misc.discuss RJack u...@example.net wrote:
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
On 2011-01-12, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote:
RJack u...@example.net writes:
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
On 1/12/2011 4:16 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Apple, for example, went proprietary with the freedom provided by
BSD contributions in XNU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
Look at Apple now: A niche player in computers, and highly
successful with iPods, iPhones and the like.
We tend to
