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erutoday at 2:25 AM1 replyview on HN

> This is one of the reasons you see Linux everywhere, and *BSD, rarely.

I doubt it's a large reason. I'd put more weight on eg Linus being a great project lead and he happens to work on Linux. And a lot of other historical contingencies.


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nine_ktoday at 2:38 AM

BSD does a few things right, hence it's used by Netflix (who share back some of their work), userland of macOS (because Apple don't like GPL, I assume), PS4 and PS5 (IDK if anything seeps back upstream from there).

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