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To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (64299)	1/20/2002 6:07:41 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

The term "proprietary Unix" often used for Unix-like operating systems that are not distributed under terms that protect the user's right to modify it and copy it freely. Unix is a standard, but experience has shown that commercial Unix has not emerged to be the most competitive system available. Instead, Open Source has shown to set real standards and being able to create an operating system that unites forces instead of fragmenting software like Unix did. Even when you look at GNU/Hurd, a not so advanced alternative to GNU/Linux, it really doesn't diverge from Linux, since most source-code is common. The software that makes up a Linux distribution today can be said to be the largest software project he world has ever known. Linux right now kills Unix the way DOS and Windows did - by providing more features, more applications, being cheaper and getting widely deployed by massive copying. Dybdahl.