GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise

Re:GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise by blasdel on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @05:23PM (#1476293)

I agree with you on everything else, but there are tons of spectacularly successful forks of BSD-licensed software -- NetApp, Cisco, Juniper, and most of their competitors have proprietary operating systems that are forked from FreeBSD.

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Re:GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise by jorgecastillo on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @08:51PM (#1476687)

Thanks for the info. The only successful software that I could think of was the XNU kernel (Mac OS X) but it is not a fork even though it borrows heavily from FreeBSD for POSIX compatibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

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