I feel the other thing missing from all this Discourse is, IBM made UNIX. If they want to act all proprietary, why don’t they abandon Linux and return to their own operating system?
That’s right, because of the enormous amount of free labor they get from the open source community.
AT&T made Unix but you are right they can switch to BSD and remove all gpl code but they would be behind 20 years and have to rebuild from scratch but then they would have to pull an apple with Mac OSX
I feel the other thing missing from all this Discourse is, IBM made UNIX. If they want to act all proprietary, why don’t they abandon Linux and return to their own operating system?
That’s right, because of the enormous amount of free labor they get from the open source community.
AT&T made Unix but you are right they can switch to BSD and remove all gpl code but they would be behind 20 years and have to rebuild from scratch but then they would have to pull an apple with Mac OSX
IBM still sells AIX too. The most recent release was six months ago.