> (1) As an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26168596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26168596 Usenet activity is a very odd measure of deadn

> (1) As an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26168596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26168596 Usenet activity is a very odd measure of deadness to use today. Although maybe that is exactly what you mean: that the BSDs were already dying in the Usenet era and are still not dead? I think even if they were dying back then, over the course of the past 20 years they may have found their niches to heal and survive in.