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The major reason Linux won is because it is actually Gnu/Linux. SCO can not use GNU software so it is basically done.
by up2isomorphism 4y ago
The major reason Linux won is because it is actually Gnu/Linux. SCO can not use GNU software so it is basically done.
- nix23 4y ago>SCO can not use GNU software so it is basically done. That's not true and you know it.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoIt can and does and was already even in 97.
- doctor_eval 4y agoYeah that’s not true. DG/UX was one of the best commercial operating systems I used at the time, and it was fantastic - because it came chock full of GNU tools.
- selfhoster11 4y agoAnyone can use GNU software if they share the source. That's part of the GNU deal with its userbase.
- ch_123 4y ago> SCO can not use GNU software so it is basically done. Not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Skunkware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Skunkware
- msla 4y agoAnyone can use GPL'd software. What they can't do is take GPL'd software and release modified versions of it which split the community and can't be folded back into the mainline. The GPL doesn't allow that kind of harmful behavior.
- nix23 4y ago>which split the community and can't be folded back into the mainline. The GPL doesn't allow that kind of harmful behavior. I think you really should read the GPL again, you can split whatever you want, you can make them incompatible...really whatever you want, BUT the modified GPL software need the changes opensourced too, IF and just IF you redistribute that code.
- msla 4y agoYou completely misunderstood my point.