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Torvalds wanted a UNIX that ran on his 386 PC and Sun wasn't going to ever offer that. Canonical doesn't want to destroy IBM/Red Hat they want to compete with

Torvalds wanted a UNIX that ran on his 386 PC and Sun wasn't going to ever offer that. Canonical doesn't want to destroy IBM/Red Hat they want to compete with the same business model by selling support contracts. Red Hat doesn't seem to want to compete with Docker using the same business model, just give it all away for free and then ... what?

quesera 4y ago
> Torvalds wanted a UNIX that ran on his 386 PC and Sun wasn't going to ever offer that. Sun did end up releasing Solaris for x86 in 1993, a couple years after Linus' first post to comp.os.minix. Solaris x86 was a paid product though. Linus apparently did not know about BSD, which goes back to ~1989.