People used to say that BSD lost because of the ambiguous copyright status of the early 90s, allowing Linux to glide in unopposed as the "free unix-like os for PCs".
It'd also be fair to say *BSD development is more centralized ("cathedral-like" to borrow from ESRs 1990s work) and that may have some repercussions in development speed.
People used to say that BSD lost because of the ambiguous copyright status of the early 90s, allowing Linux to glide in unopposed as the "free unix-like os for PCs".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution...