| Agree with your points about the suit and Licensing. > Linux only took off thanks to SGI, IBM, HP, Cray seeing value reducing costs from their own in-house systems to something else. This seems unfair, Linux took off because it constantly kept getting improved and has more and more developers contributing to it. It didn't only take off because it was cheap, but it kept on improving. Also, the Elitist mindsets of some BSD devs and community go back to harm it. Try contributing to OpenBSD or FreeBSD and compare it with how approachable and relatively easy it is to contribute to Linux is. Also, it's the fault of BSD's to not adopt or change to a better License at getting contributions back to its mainstream. I also have major objections to calling anything more secure. No software is secure, each one of them has bugs. Some are discovered because more and more people use it. It's not like BSDs never had any CVEs ever. |
It would be just another BSD or Minix if it would be only university students and weekend coders working on it, and we would all keep using Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, Tru64, Ultrix....
As for security issues, it helps that Linus is against disclosing security bugs as such.