Re: Re: Viability of Linux companies

[Kingsly John <kingslyj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Sthitaprajna wrote:

 |On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:58:54 +0530
 |Arun <am_in_00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 |
 |> 	BSD was *closed* for a long time. 
 |> They didnt heard the sound of change. And failed.
 |> ( I am not saying the technologies in BSD failed. 
 |
 |What I would like to know is what you mean by "failed". BSDs are very much
 |alive and used. 

He means it is not as popular as it should have been if it had really been
 open source . like windows would never have become remotely popular if
there had been a good multitasking OS around.. ie., it failed the numbers
game!

Kingsly


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