[AUUG-Talk]: Proprietary Unixes (Dead?)

Chris Maltby chris at sw.oz.au
Thu Oct 4 23:50:26 EST 2007


On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:23:05PM +1000, Con Zymaris wrote:
> The growth of Linux specifically, and open source Unix in general, is
> why the majority of the 'Unix' community[0] are here at all. It's also
> why 'Unix' mindshare has seen such spectacular resurgence. Like it or
> not, the rise of Linux has been Unix's saviour.

And the fact that the predictions of the imminent maturity of Windows 
as a secure/reliable/bugfree/manageable/... platform turned out to be
mostly hype.



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