From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 19:58:26 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] SunOS vs Linux In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20170106035826.GA14549@mcvoy.com> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 10:56:08PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote: > Perhaps an interesting area of speculation is, "what would the world have > looked like if USL v BSDi hadn't happened *and* SunOS was opened to the > world?" I think in that parallel universe, Linux wouldn't have made it > particularly far: absent the legal angle, what would the incentive had been > to work on something that was striving to basically be Unix, when really > good Unix was already available? Yeah, that was what I was trying to say, you said it better. > Ah well. Indeed. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm