We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom

Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by simonh on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:52AM (#11870199)

If he meant GNU why didn't he say so? Linux has nothing to do with OSX, whether you call it Linus or GNU/Linux.

> The only reason Unix is popular for a workstation at all nowadays is because Linux runs everything.

And at a stroke the entire history of Sun, Solaris and Sun OS is brushed under the carpet as though it never existed. Yes. I give up. You win. Workstations only exist because of Linux. I think I need a little lie down.

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by rpdillon on Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:24PM (#11870831)

> If he meant GNU why didn't he say so?

Because people think it's cool to just call it Linux and endlessly deride Stallman for insisting it be called GNU/Linux, even though the nuance is very important in discussions like this one.

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by kahnpro on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:35PM (#11872879)

For starters, it doesn't sound idiotic to say "Linux" in conversation

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by wtbob on Thursday June 09, 2016 @08:50PM (#11873508)

> And at a stroke the entire history of Sun, Solaris and Sun OS is brushed under the carpet as though it never existed.

I don't think Sun is responsible for Apple's choice of a Unix. I was around in the late 90s, and Linux really was an amazing workstation — far more so than a Sun, because the value for money ratio was incredibly good.

I also remember when OS X first came out (and before that, mklinux), and the selling point was that it was a Unix, like Linux.

I'd still rather have a Linux workstation than a Mac. Linux gets out of my way and lets me work. Solaris never did that (oh, the days of Solaris 'packages' …), and OS X still doesn't.

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