18 Jun
2024
18 Jun
'24
6:06 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 05:44:40PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
Once it morphed
organically for even 5 years, going back was hard. There was no upstream
anymore. Csrg was gone, and all successor BSD projects assumed they were
the new upstream. It was rarely clear whichnproject has the rights to that
claim as the answer was patjologically different for different parts of the
system.
I've said before, and I'll say it again. The BSD community couldn't
decide
who was going to drive the big red fire truck. Instead of doing that, they
each took their own toy fire truck and we have the vision of grown men
driving around on toy trucks.
All while the Linux community let Linus drive.
The results speak for themselves, we've got Android Linux on a zillion
cell phones, I believe all of the top 500 super computers are Linux,
Linux even has some use on the desktop.
BSD has what? MacOS but that's a closed off fork, it's not helping
BSD in any way other than marketing.
It's sad, I started out as a BSD/Sun guy and loved it. But when the
forks happened I could see the writing on the wall and went over to
Linux.
Shoulda, coulda, woulda (again).