[LUNI] Re: [Mwblug] Amazon switches to Linux

[lembark at wrkhors.com]

-- ReK2 <rek2 at linuxbusca.com> on 11/07/01 12:18:41 -0500

> YEs ok, but linux is still and will always be download it much more times 
> than someone buy it., how can you control that? even if more companys add 
> in.. it wont make a diff.. the linux sales stats will go up.. but they still 
> won't be the real ones... cause they are not counting the downloads...

Example would be each commercial vendor (e.g., IBM) deciding
to fork the source in order to optimize it for their own 
platform and userbase. Would leave Linux in the same shape 
*NIX in general was with IRIX, HP-UX and AIX.

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