[teitoklien]

What benefits does Linux/BSD have over Windows, as a highly productive development environment outside of all the possibilities it had opened by being open/free ?

[wyldfire]

IMO the comparison is similar but it's just not quite the same thing.

Don't get me wrong - it's a big deal to have this popular open ISA. But I just don't think it's anywhere near as big a deal as Linux is/was.

[beebeepka]

I think it might be even bigger in the long run.