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That's unrelated. It's about what people use, not what a company decided is a good fit for an extremely domain-specific part of a system. Most people have no id
by unsafecast 4y ago
That's unrelated. It's about what people use, not what a company decided is a good fit for an extremely domain-specific part of a system. Most people have no idea what MINIX is.
- CogitoCogito 4y agoThat's one way of looking at it. I guess by that line of reasoning Minix and Linux/BSD/etc. are also unpopular since they are effectively only used because companies decide it's a good fit for their system (relatively speaking there are very few such as myself that run Linux on their main system).
- unsafecast 4y agoYes, companies. A huge number of them. I'd argue that makes Linux and BSD quite successful/popular systems. My point was not that so much that it's a company, but that it's one company. I think measuring popularity by how many people chose it makes sense. Though popularity is a very weird measure. You have to also consider in what space it's popular. Linux, and especially BSDs, are unpopular in the consumer space, because not a lot of people chose it (even though a lot of people use it - consider IOS, Android, macOS, ChromeOS, PlayStation, et cetera). In contrast, Windows is rather unpopular in the server space, most choose Linux or some BSD.