14 Mar
2017
14 Mar
'17
6:11 a.m.
That was the thing that tipped me off late in the nineties that Linux was succeeding -
only the big
vendors - and Microsoft - were ignoring Linux, everybody else had Linux-compatibility tick
boxes.
Particularly when FreeBSD incorporated one such item ...
Then when IBM took Linux to the mainframe, it was pretty obvious that it wasn't
solely a hobby OS any
longer.
Wesley Parish
Quoting Josh Good <pepe(a)naleco.com>:
<snip>
My theory is that Red Hat sees more value in *not*
passing the UNIX
certification tests. As if thus Red Hat was stating: "Linux is the
new standard, and Red Hat makes it happen. Anything else out there,
is just legacy."
And truth be told, probably most (all?) of the "certified UNIX" systems
on the list have some "Linux compatibility" layer of some kind built
into them. So compatibility with whom is the compatibility that
matters?
--
Josh Good
"I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor,
Method for Guitar
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel
Goldwyn