Comment by toast0
7 years ago
Android runs on billions of devices and is a fork of Linux. There's two or three commercial forks of MySQL, I think Percona started before Sun bought MySQL, but I can't remember for sure anymore.
7 years ago
Android runs on billions of devices and is a fork of Linux. There's two or three commercial forks of MySQL, I think Percona started before Sun bought MySQL, but I can't remember for sure anymore.
Yeah and it takes a company the scale of Google to maintain it. Not feasible for pretty much anyone else.
Few small companies can maintain a full OS, regardless of the open source alternatives. Yet FreeBSD, OpenBSD and SmartOS are all still living projects, and none have a Google behind them.