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Re:Playing the Open Source Game by wott on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:25AM (#26791252)
> The irony of the GPL hate, is that without GNU we would just be using the usual UNIX flavours, with everyone taking whatever they felt like from BSD, as it was happening before Linux came into play.

More like: a small part of the professional word would be using the usual UNIX flavours, and the rest of the World would use Windows both for desktop and for servers (add a tiny share of free BSDs here and there if you wish).

Re:Playing the Open Source Game by pjmlp on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:01AM (#26791577)
Indeed.