well as an industry player, the fact that I can reuse all the improvements for free and the fact that they will always be available and debuggable is a very good point to use linux, which makes it popular.
because with linux, all improvements are available to all whereas with bsds they can be taken away and nobody will be able to takes advantage of it. That way all those improvements sum up and in the end provide a rock solid full featured product, in BSDs those improvements cant be taken away in closed/proprietary sources and sometimes lead to incompability. Thats why the industry prefer linux, cheaper to reuse available tech and much more popular too.
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well as an industry player, the fact that I can reuse all the improvements for free and the fact that they will always be available and debuggable is a very good point to use linux, which makes it popular.
uclinux is great for embeded. Also you probably have linux in your home router if you have one. Linux on handheld.org is very neat too.
because with linux, all improvements are available to all whereas with bsds they can be taken away and nobody will be able to takes advantage of it. That way all those improvements sum up and in the end provide a rock solid full featured product, in BSDs those improvements cant be taken away in closed/proprietary sources and sometimes lead to incompability. Thats why the industry prefer linux, cheaper to reuse available tech and much more popular too.