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Re:Systemd redux: The end of Linux by rodgerd on Thursday November 20, 2014 @10:46PM (#8639718)
> Unix won because the only commercially viable and well supported alternative was Windows,

Unix didn't beat Windows. Unix beat VMS and LISP machines and AS/400 and various other minicomputer operating systems. In fact, if we're talking about mainline commercial Unixes, NT started beating the shit out of them in the late 90s - if Unix lovers hadn't had the free ixen (Linux, BSDs) to fall back on it would be a sad state of affairs indeed.

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Re:Systemd redux: The end of Linux by arca_vorago on Friday November 21, 2014 @03:26PM (#8643211)
>AS/400

Hey now, I'll have you know AS/400 is still alive in going in my workplace! We also have an entire position just for it's programming...

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