• Ken27238
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      1 year ago

      The world would be a very different place if linux didn’t exist.

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        1 year ago

        No Android phones, insanely outdated internet, software development confined to what corporations allowed… Yea things could have been a lot worse

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        Insofar as BSD is very different. Linux emerged while BSD’s legal status was in serious doubt, and had already gathered considerable inertia by the time the court case ended, but the court case ended favorably for the BSD community, so we’d have ended up on that if not for Linux.