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Yes. To paraphrase Ray Noorda, it'd still be dead, but it would have been a much more interesting death.
by smarks 8y ago
Yes. To paraphrase Ray Noorda, it'd still be dead, but it would have been a much more interesting death.
- peatmoss 8y agoOh my goodness, just think of the eulogizing of NeXT that we’d be doing here on Hacker News. But who knows, maybe in that alternate timeline Sun succeeds in making a Solaris for the masses, and Linux becomes an obscure footnote. Some flavor of BSD ultimately becomes the oddball alternative to Windows (which dominates) and Solaris which is the runner-up developer favorite.