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by justincormack 4284 days ago
Most people now didn't adopt Linux to get away from something, its just the default server OS. (And not desktop).
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cwyers 4284 days ago
I think mostly people adopted Linux to get away from paying a lot of per-seat license fees for everything, and to get away from having to buy some vendor's medium iron hardware rather than just using commodity x86 chips.
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justincormack 4284 days ago
Ten years ago yes. Now we have the new people who have never used anything non x86.
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marcosdumay 4284 days ago
That explains a lot.

And it's very sad: Linux won, thus Linux becomes everything it stands against.

Let's restart the cycle for the next 30 years. Maybe FreeBSD this time? Or is it time for a plan9-like system?

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