Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sat 16th Aug 2008 01:04 UTC, submitted by sharkscott
"In many ways the virtues that have brought Linux from a Unix look alike pet project to a competitive operating system are the same as the ideals behind DefCon. The community stood on each other's shoulders and developed piece after piece of software to fill in the gaps that were found through use. Programmer's built on the ideas of others creating tighter and tighter code to support an increasingly complex framework."
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2006-01-14
I think you under estimate the effect that BSD has had on the market. A lot of web servers run on the BSD's. Also a plethora of networking devices. Since BSD doesn't require disclosure, there is no way to tell how many devices have benefited from the code. Hell, even Microsoft has used code from the BSD camp in their products. Let us not forget that it is also the base of OS X.
As for Linux, GNU software was already making waves in the industry before Linus wrote his kernel. For years Unix admins would remove the tools that came with their mainframes and replace them with a set from GNU. Do you think its just coincidence that many of the tools use the exact same flags and options? Unix admins have been adding code to the projects for decades. I won't argue that big business has helped Linux into the mainstream, most major coding projects were around long before Linux was corporate.
Edited 2008-08-17 04:36 UTC