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> Linux won on technical merits Arguably. It's hard to say Linux won on technical merits of networking compared to FreeBSD or OpenBSD, or on storage compared t
by jodrellblank 7y ago
> Linux won on technical merits
Arguably. It's hard to say Linux won on technical merits of networking compared to FreeBSD or OpenBSD, or on storage compared to FreeBSD+ZFS, or say that generally when devs chose MacOS X.
I suggest Linux won for being: the most popular out of the things which cost $0.
BSD lost for not being popular, commercial Unix, Windows and MacOS lost for costing money.
- meruru 7y agoI didn't mean to say Linux is the best OS overall (I'm a *BSD user after all). Just that Linux became big among developers for practical reasons rather than ideological (though ideologically-driven contributors certainly helped).
- asveikau 7y ago> BSD lost for not being popular People used to say that BSD lost because of the ambiguous copyright status of the early 90s, allowing Linux to glide in unopposed as the "free unix-like os for PCs". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution...
- mycall 7y agoWhile others say the GPL license is what created an ecosystem, whereby the BSD-3 won't create an ecosystem of same quality.
- asveikau 7y agoIt'd also be fair to say *BSD development is more centralized ("cathedral-like" to borrow from ESRs 1990s work) and that may have some repercussions in development speed.