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Well I'm certain the internet as we know it today is largely a result of Linux being free. Imagine the costs of getting a service oriented internet company up
by jayfuerstenberg 13y ago
Well I'm certain the internet as we know it today is largely a result of Linux being free.
Imagine the costs of getting a service oriented internet company up and running in a world where the only choice is Windows and IIS.
I wonder how much longer it would take sites like Youtube to scale to their current size.
- vidarh 13y agoYou're going to get some FreeBSD (and other *BSD) users riled up with that one (Hotmail and Yahoo, for example, are too notable services that did - in Hotmails case until well after the Microsoft acquisition - or do - in Yahoo's case - use FreeBSD extensively)