Operating Systems > Linux and UNIX
Is UNIX dying?
flap:
All the article saying is that Solaris etc. are losing ground to Linux. The article's about proprietary unices losing market share and Linux gaining, that's all. It's not important which Operating Systems are/are not officially acknowledged as being 'Unix'. The difference between Linux and Unix, or rather why Linux is not 'Unix', is just a question of classification i.e. Linux has not been officially classified as Unix, but that really is unimportant. And it's nothing to do with licences; it's just technical.
And if BSD code was now GPL'd it wouldn't retroactively apply to the BSD stuff already in Windows etc.
[ January 24, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]
WinXP user #8238942622357:
good. UNIX dies first and then Linux GO MICROSOFT! :cool:
pkd_lives:
Flap - That is most certainly what the article is showing, that prorietary code loses out to OSS. It is a blueprint for things to come. As people realise Linux will do what they want, it will eat into all the proprietary formats.
I know it would not apply retroactively, however improvements would not be available to non GPL'd code, if they released it under GPL.
I know this is not likely to happen, and you can't moan at a guy for wishing certain things can happen. Until it does I'll use Linux and be happy with it, after all it does what I want and need far better than any other OS I have ever used. Which is why it is conquering the world AND DESTROYING ALL THAT STANDS IN ITS WAY - BEWARE THE MIGHT OF LINUX FOR ALL SHALL COME UNDER ITS LICENSE AGREEMENT. Yes...well...time for some dried frog pills.
[ January 24, 2003: Message edited by: Linux Frank ]
5amYan:
I don't think UNIX or Linux are going anywhere for a while. Other than forward.
Linux is a UNIX clone, I beleive in fact it was originally a Minix clone. It is a kernel not an Operating System.
Apache is already the Standard for webservers, not IIS
checkout netcraft's site look for the servers with the logest uptimes. Most of them are BSD based.
I have FreeBSD on systems that RH won't install on cuz it says there isn't enough meory.
Look for MicroShaft (and others) to kill free software another way. They will try to get proprietary code and protocols into standards and then disallow the use those proprietary protocols in conjunction with free software. Two they will change the EULA to disallow freesoftware use or interactions with their software. THis is already in some component EULAs. Also once you start using M$ media player 9 you have granted them digital rights management at microsoft. That is the right to manage all the files on your computer. In the near future they will then lock any file not created by a M$ approved program....
and et cetera.
Doogee:
stop bumping old topics, damnit so old, and your pusing my topic further and further down, now thats just not nice.
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