See also the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars, during which the industry m...

prodigal_erik on Sept 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux d...

See also the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars, during which the industry mostly lost a decade of work entombed in proprietary forks. Tit-for-tat has better survival characteristics, and the GPL is no exception.