In gnu.misc.discuss RJack <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/11/2011 5:41 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Why do you think it is that BSD Unix has not held its own in >> competition with GNU/Linux? > One acronym: IBM. > IBM could not successfully compete with Windows NT with their AIX line > running on the WinTel PC. Microsoft had screwed over IBM and their > OS/2. IBM jumped on the Linux bandwagon big time during the SCO debacle > with RCU, JFS, NUMA etc... This stimulated peripheral driver > development for PC hardware. Linux was steadily growing then even without IBM. I suspect RedHat and SuSE were more important than IBM. Why was Linux growing then, but not BSD? > The GPL was good at suppressing new commercial competition which > pleased both IBM and Microsoft. And Richard Stallman, of course. I suspect that it was MS rather than the GPL which suppressed OS competition, as you note above. > Apple, for example, went proprietary with the freedom provided by BSD > contributions in XNU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU Look at Apple > now: A niche player in computers, and highly successful with iPods, iPhones and the like. > And. . . Boom: Apple Worth More Than Microsoft. > http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100526/apple-worth-more-than-microsoft/ > > > Sincerely, > RJack :) > > Capitalism Always Wins ! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
