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Did Linux suck the air out of other, competing projects throughout its history? If so we can’t possibly consider what was or wasn’t lost.
by Mtinie 8y ago
Did Linux suck the air out of other, competing projects throughout its history? If so we can’t possibly consider what was or wasn’t lost.
- mmirate 8y agoIf it did, then good riddance. Linux is barely able to attract hardware vendors to write less-than-afterthought drivers as it is; let alone with, say, even more non-Unix OS flavors as distraction. Things like Redox and Haiku may be interesting theoretical constructs, but without the ability to use Linux (or BSD) device-drivers, they're not generally useful to the free software community and we can only hope they don't draw too many resources away from more useful pursuits.