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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:01PM (#24343243)
It is, as anyone coding since mid-80's would be aware of, what is its market share by now?

Ah and there was that small legal issue back in the early 90's.

Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by nix23 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:07PM (#24343309)
1/3 of the us internet traffic, not counting Juniper, then add all PS2/3/4 Consoles, MacOS's, FreeNas, EMC-San's: Biggest German Online Seller, Sony Japan, Checkpoint and so on...search for yourself.

BTW: Market-share means nothing, you know Android is NOT Gnu/Linux

EDIT: Maybe your too young..but do you remember that SCO/Microsoft thingy with Linux

Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:48PM (#24346188)
I known, most of them don't contribute that much upstream.

I surely remember it, except BSD did not ever had anyone like IBM jumping into the battle. :)

As for being young, thanks for the compliment

> ...as anyone coding since mid-80's....

And as information, during the early days, the Internet ran on commercial UNIXes.

Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by nix23 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:33AM (#24351470)
>IBM jumping into the battle

They did not...the opposite is true, they shat their pants because shortly before they said "yes" to Linux, that's why SCO came...first time you had really big money (IBM) behind Linux, please don't change the timeline...it's kind of important.

>And as information, during the early days, the Internet ran on commercial UNIXes.

What do you wanna say with that? During the early days of Smartphones they ran on commercial OS's??