The Dennis Ritchie Interview (founder of C)
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| What do you think about the development of Linux and the BSD variants? Do
| you think they'll eventually replace all the proprietary Unix systems?
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| Dennis Ritchie: As a general phenomenon, I think they're great, but they
| suffer from much the same struggles and competition that the proprietary
| ones did and do. Sun and HP, SGI , IBM, Digital others all have (or had)
| variants of the same thing-- so too do Linux and the BSDs. Their
| proprietors may have different motivations for producing the variants,
| of course. And of course each does have its own attractions. There is ak
| ind of brand differentiation, and this is one of the reasons why
| portability is hard.
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http://forums.programming-designs.com/viewtopic.php?id=599
This is apparently 3 years old.
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