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Amazing! If you ever wondered how Linux and open source were able to completely destroy proprietary UNIX, this is a great example. Competing proprietary libra
by krupan 3y ago
Amazing! If you ever wondered how Linux and open source were able to completely destroy proprietary UNIX, this is a great example. Competing proprietary libraries on competing proprietary UNIX implementations all with subtle differences just because.
- loa_in_ 3y agoThe frontier probably didn't really move all that much, conceptually. Someone probably is writing open CUDA lib right now, or spending another half-awake night improving Nouveau open graphics driver, or trying to tell if NTFS is even worth pushing on with...
- 0xbadcafebee 3y ago> Competing proprietary libraries on competing proprietary UNIX implementations all with subtle differences just because. Replace "UNIX implementations" with "desktop environments" and that's Linux to a tee
- revelio 3y agoEh what destroyed proprietary unix was Windows NT, which was proprietary everything. Linux came along and mopped up what was left, but was able to do so largely because UNIX wasn't all that proprietary. As the thread points out, Sun had documented all their protocols which Microsoft never did.