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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by smarks on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:30PM (#18622450)
Yes. To paraphrase Ray Noorda, it'd still be dead, but it would have been a much more interesting death.
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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by peatmoss on Thursday December 06, 2018 @08:04PM (#18624202)
Oh my goodness, just think of the eulogizing of NeXT that we’d be doing here on Hacker News.

But who knows, maybe in that alternate timeline Sun succeeds in making a Solaris for the masses, and Linux becomes an obscure footnote. Some flavor of BSD ultimately becomes the oddball alternative to Windows (which dominates) and Solaris which is the runner-up developer favorite.

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