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Posted Aug 19, 2011 14:05 UTC (Fri) by cmorgan (guest, #71980)
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And to clarify, I'm not surprised they leave BSD and others out. For whatever reason it appears that the BSDs never really caught on. Maybe marketing, maybe its a lack of copyleft as another person here mentioned. I do wonder if one of the other OSes (other than BSD) would have had a larger role. But yeah, you'd expect people at LinuxCon to talk mostly about Linux :-)

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Posted Aug 19, 2011 23:09 UTC (Fri) by smadu2 (guest, #54943) [Link] (1 responses)

BSDs never caught on ? Many companies still actively use it in their commercial products. Apple, Juniper, Citrix to name a few.

Well, that's the problem, isn't it?

Posted Aug 20, 2011 16:05 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Yes, Apple, Juniper, Citrix are using BSD to do development. But these all continue the line of "holistic approach": now it's not just an OS, but a hardware too.

You can not just grab BSD and go create something new with "two guys in a garage": you either need to accept some large design or you need huge effort to change it.

So BSD continue in niches it caught 10 years ago (sometimes it's moved to new ones - for example iPhone or iPad - but it's done by teams founded before XXI century), but new development is done with Linux almost exclusively.