>It could be revived and improved if people wanted. It got nowhere with C programmers, though, in the past. I guess the market will decide. Ransomware will ex

>It could be revived and improved if people wanted. It got nowhere with C programmers, though, in the past. I guess the market will decide. Ransomware will explode in the next few years. If a big enough exploit gets pinned on Linux then sentiment could change and there could be a well-funded hard fork. edit: saw this quoted on Twitter today (but can't recall where): “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.” Milton Freidman http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110844-only-a-crisis---actual-or-perceived---produces-real http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110844-only-a-crisis---actua...