Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:19:45 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has the foretold fragmentation of Linux begun? Message-ID: <20020820014945.GB53494@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020819155109.GC89852@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20020819155109.GC89852@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Monday, 19 August 2002 at 16:51:09 +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I think it's interesting that we have Red Hat, United Linux (with the > LSB stamp?), and now Sun rolling their own. > > It seems that this was part of the plan all along of these big > corporations, and this could lead to the exact same kind of > fragmentation that brought down Unix in the first place. > > Will the GPL help, hinder, or be irrelevant to prevent this? My impression is that the Linux distros are consolidating, not diversifying. My guess is that in a few years there will only be two or three serious contenders. Some Linux people say that's the case today. Certainly people are beginning to realise the disadvantages of the current plethora of distros. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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