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If Linux Never Was – imagining an alternate reality without Linux

11 pointsby parvenu74over 5 years ago

4 comments

gshdgover 5 years ago
Nah. If Linux was never invented, this would just be the 20th time in a row someone declared it to be “the year of BSD on the desktop”.
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mariuoloover 5 years ago
If not some version of BSD, we might be using Minix or perhaps Hurd.
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skinnymuchover 5 years ago
Like everyone else is saying. This is silly. Another open source kernel and OS would’ve taken Linux’s place.<p>An easier example is Git. If Git wasn’t made. Or perhaps it was made by an unknown and thus didn’t gain traction, the world would be pretty close to how it is now. Another DVCS like Hg would’ve been widely used or a split of a few. However it would’ve ended up, the world would be, relatively speaking, the same.
krzepahover 5 years ago
NooooOooOOoOoooOOOOooooOoooooooo :&#x27;(<p>We&#x27;d be all on win :((((<p>Joke aside : BSD would probably at it&#x27;s place - one thing that we could advocate as being unique to unix is it&#x27;s viral open license system
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