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a big part of the reason linux became so popular was because of the huge dollar amounts Sun, IBM and HP were charging for their OS.
by jijji 5y ago
a big part of the reason linux became so popular was because of the huge dollar amounts Sun, IBM and HP were charging for their OS.
- mdaniel 5y agoI can imagine that, but for me personally it was because I could run Linux on the existing machine in our dining room, and didn't need Big Iron™ to try it out. I'm sure related to that is why the Asus router in my house also runs on Linux, and likely my fridge, and _arguably_ my phone
- pjmlp 5y agoAnd most likely all of those vendors haven't upstreamed any of that.
- mdaniel 5y agoFWIW, Asus makes their GPL source available to Eric who makes the builds actually open source: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng#readme https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng#readme AOSP's middle initials are Open Source, but I'm with you on the fridge