> "From my point of view, Linux would never taken off if POSIX had been taken more seriously." Taking POSIX seriously would have made no sense at the time. Ba

> "From my point of view, Linux would never taken off if POSIX had been taken more seriously." Taking POSIX seriously would have made no sense at the time. Back then, Microsoft seemed in a position to supplant the '70s era UNIX architecture with a more up-to-date '90s era son-of-VMS architecture for servers. Nobody was expecting Linux to come out of the blue, brutally fratricide all the other UNIXes, and take over the server market.