Timeline for Why is Unix still used if Linux is based off of it, and Linux is free?
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| Sep 30, 2014 at 8:43 | comment | added | Charles Stewart | @IgnacioVazquez-Abrams As someone who was convinced by 10.3/Jaguar that OSX was a FreeBSD distribution with some funny slow kernel and a wonderful NEXT-ish GUI, I first loved it, but was disappointed by the introduction of launchd in Tiger and deeply disillusioned by the abandonment of support for the BSD filesystem with Snow Leopard. It was Unix with a nice GUI, but no more. | |
| Oct 29, 2011 at 15:36 | comment | added | johannes | Of course, but "being UNIX" is barely a reason for anybody, people look for features (like CPU-support or management features or availability of specific software etc.) | |
| Oct 29, 2011 at 4:16 | comment | added | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | Sure, but even the fraction of users that use OS X because it's fashionable is much larger than the fraction that uses it because it's Unix. | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 23:37 | history | answered | johannes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |