[talk] Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop?

[Pete Wright]

On 11/21/14 11:17, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:49:31AM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/20/14 17:13, George Rosamond wrote:
>>
>>>> my prediction is that in next several years is there are going to be
>>>> three pools of unix users:
>>>>
>>>> 1) osx peeps who are using unix w/o really knowing it
>
> This group isn't relevant to us...wow, that sounds elitist, but the point
> is, Yeah, OSX got itself Unix certified and these people use it, but it has
> little or nothing to do with the BSDs' acceptance or lack of it.
>

you sure?  having a company like apple develop against a unix'y system 
is pretty helpful.  for example the list of software here is all being 
used by/patched by apple:
https://www.apple.com/opensource/

you could also argue that by moving over to clang/llvm is another 
example of the indirect benefit having such a huge userbase has helped 
other systems developers.


-pete

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