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Comment by pjmlp

1 year ago

It is also relevant, that as proven on FOSDEM corridors full of Apple laptops, most folks only care about some sort of POSIX experience, and couldn't care less about Linux/BSD religion.

So that target audience gets a cool modern experience, without fighting with driver issues and such.

It is also the reason why Microsoft ended up bringing Project Astoria from the ashes into WSL.

UNIX has won, but not as Richard Stallman would have liked to.

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kasabali  1 year ago

AFAIK Stallman didn't care about UNIX, considering he is more of a LISP guy. GNU targeted UNIX because it was the popular OS at the time.

  • pjmlp  1 year ago

    Kind of,

    > Unix is not my ideal system, but it is not too bad. The essential features of Unix seem to be good ones, and I think I can fill in what Unix lacks without spoiling them. And a system compatible with Unix would be convenient for many other people to adopt.

    -- https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html